Just one more thing about Romney/MA Healthcare. A lot of people probably don’t know this, but MA Healthcare was a horrible, HORRIBLE law. It create sky high premiums for the middleclass as a way of giving ‘free’ healthcare to all the illegals, layabouts, & the genuinely disabled/destitute.
As a result, many working families that could formerly afford health insurance could not afford it under MA Healthcare. For them, the penalties were excruciatingly, devastatingly high and it was nearly impossible to get excused from that liability. You could go before a judge and PROVE you could not afford the penalty, and fail to be excused. That law—which from the beginning had to be subsidized by the other 49 states—ruined countless working people. It was a nightmare.
PS: In the event a MA native was able to scrape together the $ to pay the MA Healthcare penalty...they still didn’t have insurance. They had to pay all their medical bills & medicines out of pocket, while continuing to pay the annual penalties.