Originally Posted by CMANN

it is possible to ask the governments mandate certain things. They mandate licensing such as drivers licenses, Plummer's licenses, real estate licenses. State governments can do this it is their right.

But everybody fails to realize or perhaps they realize they just don't mention it is the motivation behind the Massachusetts plan. Massachusetts was being ripped off by people who could well afford to buy health insurance to provide for their medical needs. In Massachusetts as in many states all you have to do is show up at the emergency room and you will receive medical care. There were so many doing this in Massachusetts that it required a solution. Agree with it or not it was Romney's solution. If you could afford health insurance to provide for your medical needs you should do so. Otherwise you should pay a fine and order to help support the government that is picking up the tab for your health care.

Do you find something wrong with?

Now we come to what the Massachusetts legislature did to this plan after it was implemented. It mandated all kinds of things to be covered as it does with regular health insurance. Such as the highly publicized case of a Massachusetts prisoner who wanted to have a sex change while in jail. Viagra. Just about anything you can imagine. Those of you who have ever lived in Massachusetts will find that your Medicare supplement in Florida cost less. The reason is the same. Massachusetts legislature dictated things that had to be mandatorily covered up insurance programs.

When you consider what the motivation was dealing out a better way of handling that then Romney did? Are you just an ideologue?

The fact that the results of 96% medical coverage in Massachusetts was just an incidental. It was a bonus. The real thing was to keep people from ripping off the rest of the taxpayers in the Commonwealth.

There are some would love to see Romney come out with a mea culpa and say he should never have done it. Then you'd hear all of the people yakking about flip flop.

Just some thoughts