Posted on 08/20/2009 7:55:04 PM PDT by pissant
(CNN) -- If Washington wants health care reform with bipartisan support, experts say consider what former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney accomplished as governor in Democratic Massachusetts.
"You don't have to have a public option," Romney said. "You don't have to have the government getting into the insurance business to make it work."
Three years after enacting its own version of reform, Massachusetts now has near-universal coverage.
Taxpayer watchdogs say it's affordable.
"There is this widespread assumption, that is treated as fact, that it's breaking the bank in Massachusetts ... it's not breaking the bank at all." said Michael Widmer of Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation.
And health care experts say it's popular.
"Seven in 10 people in the state support the program, and no more than one in 10 would repeal it." said Robert Blendon with the Harvard University School of Public Health.
Unlike Democratic proposals that would give Americans the choice of joining a government-run health care plan, Massachusetts has no public option. Instead, people in the state are required to buy private insurance, and the poor get subsidies.
The reform created the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority, which is similar to a health insurance exchange.
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Wealth care for the party that claims to be Christians but worships Ayan Rand a devout atheiest.
No idea what your talking about.
Cat fight! Cat fight!
Huh?
Oh yeah, it’s been a reeeeeeeeeeeeal godsend to the people of MA.
Don't we already have medicare and medicaid?
How about we just go with tort reform, and get rid of some other legislation that has driven the cost of insurance up, and get rid of all the fraud and duplicity in Medicaid and Medicare, standardize claim forms so that hospitals don't need a team of lawyers to figure out all the legalese and who covers what instead?
That alone will shave about 15% off the cost of delivering health care.
Our health care system isn't really broken, it's just that the government has stuck their fingers into it and screwed it up, plus future Democrats- ambulance chasers- make their fortunes by winning ridiculous multi billion dollar law suits that drive costs up, then go into politics to protect the gold mine for their children.
Obviously you have no idea how Romneycare works.
Still supporting bank bailouts and any form of corporate welfare, eh?
who is Ayan Rand?
The one that the Randians worship around here and that I don’t respect enough to spell her name correctly.
No.
Listen einstein, the day I support a 750 billion TARP bailout crap sandwich plan like Mitt and the rest of the RINOs did last September, will be the day I support romneycare. Which means never.
Doesn't it work like bank bail outs and corporate welfare? Taking money from taxpayers and subsidizing those that don't pay taxes, or pay little and don't want to buy their own health insurance because putting in that swimming pool is a better use of their money. Why pay for health insurance when you can make someone else pay it for you? That's Romney care.
Oh I see. The Randians, lots of them in Massachusetts are there?
Well it’s going bankrupt.. Just like any other type of Social Health Care plan. So it is a terrible model.
No.
let’s all bitch and moan about who our candidate will be, point out all his (or hers) weaknesses (in each of our opinions) and we will end up with McKain or Dole again and another four years of the village idiot.....brilliant strategy.......pathetic
Romney: the gift that keeps on giving!?
Romneycare means mandates. Mandates mean the government forcing people to do something with the threat of using violence against them. I’m not big on that.
Or we could go with your strategy: Vote for the one who a majority of MA Democrats, Independents & Republicans voted for in the GOP Primaries...(boy what a "Captain Obvious" clue for us clueless GOPers as to who we should vote for...just take the recommend of Bay State voters!)
...and then we watch the MSM make the 2012 election a referendum on racism...given that O would be running against a wealthy man who donated 10% of his $ to a church he's been part of lifelong -- a church where even when Mitt was age 30 blacks could not become a priestholder!
(Oh, sure that's what we want the image of the GOP to be so that MSM wouldn't even need to delve into any other substantial issues on the campaign trail! The "R" in Romney will just be parlayed by the MSM as equaling racism)
Can you say "white and delightsome"? (phrase from original Book of Mormon...which unknown Book of Mormon later editors changed to "pure and delightsome")
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