Posted by
cornpone on Saturday, September 01, 2007 10:22:12 PM
Mitt Romney and Ted Kennedy's mandatory insurance scheme imposed upon the citizens of Massachusetts is not a conservative idea.
It’s yet another unfunded mandate that places everyone at the mercy of insurance companies who will exploit the captive market. And don't think they will lower their premiums under any circumstances. They have already proven that, when they did not lower their premiums after tort reform ostensibly lowered their exposure to liability.
It is indeed ironic that the states hate it when the feds impose unfunded mandates on state government; yet they don’t mind a bit imposing them on their own citizens.
Anyone who thinks Romney the flip flopper has changed his spots is naive.
This mandatory health insurance policy that he and Ted Kennedy, his fellow Massachusetts liberal, conspired together to force upon the people of Massachusetts and now wish to enforce upon the whole nation is antithetical to "free" markets.
A mandatory/compulsory market is antithetical to freedom and is not "free "at all.