What is moderate about personal responsibility? Where do you see a problem with Mitt's idea on health care? Are you for Hillary care? Are you for the status quo? Which would be better? Are you for no health care? Are you for higher taxes? Where is Mitt moderate on this issue?
All I would like you to do is answer the last question to me, the rest of the questions may help you develop an understanding of the issue at hand.
I don't see him as being moderate on this issue, more off the charts.
Health care? It's so screwed up that a simple person like me has no answer. I do know a few things, though.
1. Get rid of health care insurance. As at least one other poster noted, it has helped the price for any medical care go through not only the roof but the stratosphere. Insurance companies, bless their hearts, are not charity orgs. They are profit driven companies, and I am not faulting them for that. But they need their money, and our money becomes their money, and the price of dr visits and eveyrthing else goes up, up, up.
2. Tort reform. Lawyers need to be muzzled, restrained, put in strait jackets, and defanged.
3. Medical savings accounts sound good.
4. Other kinds of medical licenses could work; a lot of Americans already visit "alternative" caregivers such as chiropractors, acupuncturists, massage therapists, and the like. Actually many of these people are very qualified and knowledgeable, and could help peoples' health before it gets irreversibly bad, thus needing more expensive and invasive methods.
5. Even regular medical schools could offer other kinds of degrees - for instance, there has been a proliferation of "nurse practitioners" who are very knowledgeable and can do much that a regular doctor can do, but presumably less schooling, and therefore cheaper to become one.
6. Related to health insurance - if people have to pay, out of pocket, for each visit and each pill, they will not be so profligate with going to the doctor for each cold and flu, and not be so stupidly demandind of pharmaceutical drugs for same. Which generally do no good anyway. There's a huge problem with over prescribing anti-biotics for every cold and flu, which do no good whatsoever, and just screw up peoples' health anyway.
How's those for starters?
And for really poor people, doctors and nurses who are so inclined (there are some, in this area there is a clinic for low income people staffed by retired nurses and doctors who wanted to work there) can work for less money, on a sliding scale, so people can afford it who have little money.
And, in the past, churches and private organizations took up the slack to help the poor. If taxes were lowered (which they should be), private individuals such as you and me could afford to donate more to our favorite charities, and help the poor that way. Much better use of money.
What do you think of those ideas, just off the top of my head?