[RINO] Crist touts Cover Florida healthcare plan as `national model' despite its failings

The Miami Herald ^ | 2009-08-09

[rabscuttle385]

Gov. Charlie Crist says his health-insurance idea should be a national model, even though it's done little to help Florida's uninsured.

BY MARC CAPUTO

TALLAHASSEE -- A success rate of less than a tenth of a percent might not sound like much, but to Gov. Charlie Crist it's campaign-trail bragging material for healthcare reform.

Crist's new Cover Florida healthcare proposal has signed up only 3,757 people in a state with nearly four million uninsured. Meantime, an estimated 77,250 Floridians have lost health-insurance coverage since Cover Florida began releasing statistics in March.

Yet Crist touts Cover Florida as a ``national model'' and as a private-sector alternative to the government-run insurance plans of congressional Democrats and President Barack Obama.

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Crist's government-is-the-problem tone, which has become more pronounced as he began stumping for U.S. Senate, contrasts sharply with the approach he took to stabilize insurance rates on homes, businesses and other properties in 2007.

Then, Crist advocated for more government-run insurance to compete with private hurricane insurance companies as they raised rates and dropped customers. Now, Crist opposes government-run insurance, while health-insurance companies are raising rates and dropping customers.

[rabscuttle385]

Romney, Crist, Whitman...all flaming RINOs.

[Munson]

Oh my, Crist is killing his campaign. Jeb Bush needs to run for the Nelson seat.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Romney/Crist 2012: “We’ll f#*! up health care twice as fast as the Democrats!”

[rabscuttle385]

Romney/Crist 2012?!?! That’s like the second coming of the Anti-Christ and his Prophet, after Obama/Emanuel!

[ncalburt]

Marc Caputo is a OBama drone . This leftist is scum.

[This_far]

HEALTHCARE

The latest legacy legislation.

[joydocsusie]

RUBIO 2010!! NEW BLOOD=NEW BLOOD DOWN WITH RINOS LIKE CRIST

.......................................RUBIO RUBIO RUBIO RUBIO

DOWN WITH RINOS-THEY ARE LIKE PELOSI+ CRIST=RINOS

[VeniVidiVici]

Only 3700 people signed up for something they can get for free?

I don't think the problem is with the program. Whatever it may be.

Here you go. Here is a picture of people standing in line in downtown Orlando yesterday waiting for FREE backbacks. The line was this long all day long. Some folks even told the news people they were standing there because they were getting something for FREE!

[screaminsunshine]

Welfare parasites hav nothing better to do except vote for Democrats and hope for free stuff. At least they are not out stealing. But it is daylight.

[Leisler]

In Costa Rica, medical care is ‘free’. People stand in line to get any medicine they don’t need......and then sell it.

Who’da thunk?

Government Health Care. If you like Public Housing Slums, you’ll love it.

[Diogenesis]

Romney BEGAN the Death Plans (for those not his religion and mindsent).

"Mass. Pushes Rationing to Control Universal Healthcare Costs (RomneyCare)
A 10-member Massachusetts state healthcare advisory board unanimously recommended
that the state begin rationing healthcare to keep the state’s marquee universal health care program afloat financially.
The July 16 recommendations, the Boston Globe explained, would result in a situation where “patients could find it harder to get procedures they want but are of questionable benefit if doctors are operating within a budget.
And they might find it more difficult to get care wherever they want, if primary doctors push to keep patients within their accountable care organization.”
The Globe stressed that the recommendations would “dramatically change how doctors and hospitals are paid, essentially putting providers on a budget as a way to control exploding healthcare costs and improve the quality of care.”
"Budget" is a more politically acceptable word for rationing.
The Globe also noted that “consumer advocates said patients are going to have to be educated about the new system.” Yes, apparently they will have to get used to having their healthcare rationed.

[browardchad]

This is getting amusing. Rubio is generating crowds, even though he’s behind in the polls, and the RINO - who endorsed cap and trade, indulged the environmentalists at every turn, and thus became the darling of the left, is now twisting himself into a pretzel trying to distinguish himself as something other than a Democrat. But as this article from the Herald illustrates, he’s not fooling anyone.

Charlie’s chickens are coming home to roost.

[Katarina]

My sister said Marco Rubio is running and he is a conservative.

[screaminsunshine]

I think we should get the Government out of healthcare COMPLETELY. Medicare Medicaid all of it. The government should take all the money it is spendig and create a fund to pay all medical bills over 50k per year for all citizens. It should have no control over who you get treated by or for what. Insurance companies could offer insurance to cover expenses up to 50k and have acess to the government fund for catastrophic losses. Over time the stop loss could be raised until the Government can get back to what it was originally intended to do.

[socialismisinsidious]

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[Munson]

There are two senate seats in Florida now. Rubio could have one, and Bush could have one. Rubio would go for the Nelson seat, and Bush could go for the Martinez seat.

[Recovering_Democrat]

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