Mitt Romney, call your office (emphasis mine). Remember Mitt? The guy who keeps insisting that he could make RomneyCare work nationally? From Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal… By JEFFREY S. FLIER As the dean of Harvard Medical School I am frequently asked to comment on the health-reform debate. I’d give it a failing grade. Instead of forthrightly dealing with the [...]...
One state in the U.S. has already experienced socialized medicine, and that state is Massachusetts, in the form of RomneyCare. Perhaps, we should look more closely at its results to get a feel for what is about to be forced down our throats. Read from Dick Morris : DOCTOR SHORTAGE By Dick Morris "Joseph Stubbs, president of the American College of Physicians — the second-largest doctors’...
Peter Suderman makes a list of the negative points of Romneycare, which Obama would use as a model for the rest of us: Both liberals and conservatives agree that 'Massachusetts hasn’t figured out a way to restrain the overall growth in health care costs. If national health care reform fares no better, the country could be in serious fiscal trouble.' The system is not...
The failed Massachusetts health plan holds three key similarities with the current national health reform proposal: mandatory coverage, government controls over what coverage must include, and a “public option.” Paul Hsieh describes these similarities between ObamaCare and RomneyCare. 1) Massachusetts’ system of mandatory insurance both inflates costs and violates personal rights. Under any...
As I’ve been saying for a while now, if you want to see how the Democrat proposals for health care will work look at Massachusetts where those proposals have already been made law. The details of Congress’ health care “reform” legislation are finally coming into focus, and it’s not a pretty picture. Congress is essentially proposing a national version of...
Appearing on CNN last night, Mitt Romney conceded that the Massachusetts health care plan he signed into law did nothing to control costs. But, he now says, it was never intended to. ...
It wasn't? The problem with Romney's account is that at the time he signed the bill, he was saying it would bring down health care costs. Specifically, in a triumphant April 2006 Wall Street Journal op-ed titled "Health Care for Everyone? We Found a Way," Romney boasted: "Every uninsured citizen ...
This is a good segment that among other things rips RomneyCare’s real fiscal results: Here’s the transcript of Beck’s opening monologue on RomneyCare: Beck: …. Remember, while the White House is waging war on Fox, what this is really all about is the effort to push health care. I want to show you what we’re headed for with [...]
Stossel makes the argument that a free market in which patients are in charge of negotiating directly with doctors over the cost of care is what's needed to reform the system. I'm not sure how accurate that really is. Beck uses an example of a patients asking, "Hey, doc, do I really need that test?" And this is the problem: How do we, as patients, know what tests we need? I can't...
For your information, Romney vetoed several aspects of the Mass health care laws and was OVER-ROAD, like he OFTEN WAS, by the Liberal Legislature. Romney was probably overrid on most vetoes than any other governor in the US. It is called being a glutton for punishment. Nevertheless, even recently, Mass health care is still in budget.It is time you got your facts straight...
Live Discussing foreign policy issues. Scott Brown hits at Capuano. Robinson hits at Brown. Health Care Pags- Public Option component of cost reduction. Admin costs need to be reduced through centralized data. Brown - goes after Capuano (who sweated the week out in DC fighting not talking about health care reform - my edit) If you have Medicare "you should be scared"...
... of the House and Senate bills, as they now stand, will look very much like the plan once called Romneycare in Massachusetts. It will be highly (if not entirely) dependent on private health insurance, will lack meaningful price controls, and will be forced of necessity to leave a great many pople uninsured even after passage. (I did a back-of-the-envelopeestimate in April 2008 when many progressives...
... of the House and Senate bills, as they now stand, will look very much like the plan once called Romneycare in Massachusetts. It will be highly (if not entirely) dependent on private health insurance, will lack meaningful price controls, and will be forced of necessity to leave a great many pople uninsured even after passage. It will do great things for the lower-income uninsured - which...
