Romney’s costly healthcare plan
January 24th, 2008 by Brendan SteinhauserGovernor Romney’s healthcare plan is costing taxpayers lots of dough. Hat tip to ABC News The Note.
Romney’s healthcare plan is getting expensive. “Spending on the state’s landmark health insurance initiative would rise by more than $400 million next year, representing one of the largest increases in the $28.2 billion state budget the governor proposed yesterday,” Alice Dembner writes in The Boston Globe.
Many of my conservative friends are about to throw their support to the governor from Massachusetts. On economic policy, he is schizophrenic. Sometimes he sounds like a tax cutting, government shrinking conservative. Other times he promises to bail out the Michigan auto industry.
Is mandating that citizens have health insurance a conservative idea? No. Is a politician that supports such a plan a conservative? Our friends at National Review seem to think so.
January 24th, 2008 at 11:56 am
I say we write Fred Thompson in as President.
January 24th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
rofl…poor Trey…
January 25th, 2008 at 2:46 am
This goes to show that mandating that everyone have a private health care insurance plan is one thing…paying for it is another. Without getting at the root causes of why health care is so expensive to being with in this country, allowing people greater “access” to health care plans won’t work.
January 30th, 2008 at 12:00 am
I predict some upcoming posts from these guys trying to take some of the shine off of John McCain…prove me wrong…
June 1st, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Not to mention what pressure is placed on an already overtaxed primary care system in the poorest reimbursed state in the nation. No one thought to see why Massachusetts can’t attract physicians before adding to the problem geometrically. Hopefully, the newly covered patients will be able to find doctors in adjoining states where providers are more readily available.