HAPPY FRIDAY PISSANT !!! ... lol
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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This IS bizarro world... that is ? since November 4 , 2008.
first of all, I said nothing about Romney although you Romney haters sound like the same jackasses who would never vote for a Catholic before Kennedy won, fearing that the Pope would move into the Lincoln bedroom...I’d personally prefer Palin, but I’d take Romney over ANY Democrat
Look in the mirror.
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