[Rudder]

Romney-Daniels in 2012.

[Mariner]

Now Daniels is out too.

Not qualified.

[muawiyah]

Here's some wiggle room. The year is 2003 and the Bush administration was highlighting the war against the terrorists and also doing something about making medical insurance payments fully tax deductible ~ with a tax credit. This was wrapped up in minor proposals for Social Security privatization.

By January 2007, after LOSING the mandate of heaven (Democrats running Congress) Bush proposed a total tax deductible medical insurance deal ~ (up to $15,000 for a family) ~ which didn't make first base with the Democrats.

I would suppose Mitch Daniels in that earlier period (2003) made sure that whatever he said was consistent with the Bush position.

[jnsun]

universal health care system that would move away from employee-based health policies and make it mandatory for all Americans to have health insurance.

That's what we favor. Get employers out of the health insurance business. Insure individuals face their own responsibilities.

Mitch Daniels is not a "RINO" here, he is saying that each of us must face the responsibility for our own healthcare. It does not necessarily have to be insurance plan, but YOU better be ready to pay for your own health care. If nothing else, let the "insurance" be the legal ability (of the provider) to garnish wages, access property, access accounts, etc. no different than say, paternity suits, or the failure to pay taxes (IRS), unpaid utility bills, etc. Personal responsibility IS what Conservatism is, is it not? If one wants freedom then one must accept the responsibilities, No?

Johnny Suntrade

[Siena Dreaming]

This was first noted by Sam Stein of the Huffington Post

LOL. Of course it was.

The left wing is trying to scrounge up EVERY little tidbit they can find to turn conservatives against Daniels.

Daniels may have said he favored universal coverage; he did NOT say that that would come from Government.

Daniels has a great HSA program going in IN. I wish I couldd avail myself of that; my state does not allow HSA's.