[Final Authority]

You might consider it socialized medicine but I see it as personal responsibility. In the end, one way or the other, we all pay. Under the present system, those who pay, either directly or through insurance pay for more service than they receive because we subsidize those who do not with increases in taxes and higher insurance premiums because in the end the docs and hospitals must pay their bills.

If there was no practical difference between socialized and private medicine then it wouldn't matter but we know that the private system of health care delivery is the best in the world and Mitt and any right think person should work to keep it that way.

[Advil]

The problem isn't that people can not afford health insurance then rack up hundreds of thousands in health care bills...

The problem is that it's even POSSIBLE to rack up hundreds of thousands in health care bills. It's easy, and the type of care doesn't even have to be all that extraordinary.

We need to reform the system that makes a bandage $100 or an injection $250, or a day in a hospital bed $1500. If the prices were what they should be, insurace would be cheap.

[inquest]

What's the difference between socialized medicine and mandatory insurance? The insurance premium becomes indistingushable from a tax, and everyone has to be enrolled in the system. Sure you get the semblance of having a choice of which particular company to go with, but in reality it's not much of a choice, as is proven by states that have mandatory auto insurance. The insurance companies become appendages of the government in everything but name.