Comments on: Romney Defends RomneyCare Crackup; WSJ Strikes Back http://www.bizzyblog.com/2008/07/29/romney-defends-romneycare-crackup-wsj-strikes-back/ The Business End of the Blogosphere Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:08:17 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: dscott http://www.bizzyblog.com/2008/07/29/romney-defends-romneycare-crackup-wsj-strikes-back/comment-page-1/#comment-123546 dscott Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:54:16 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/?p=7262#comment-123546 <i>The ominous news is that only about 18,000 people — or 5% of the newly insured — have taken advantage of the “connector,” which was supposed to be the plan’s free-market innovation linking individuals to private insurers.</i> If insuring the uninsured was the real issue, why didn't RomneyCare simply create the "Connector" in the first place and reform the State Insurance Laws to allow pooling of individuals to allow group rates? Why didn't they simply allow small businesses to aggregate with other businesses of similar type to allow a more affordable rate of larger businesses???? The ominous news is that only about 18,000 people — or 5% of the newly insured — have taken advantage of the “connector,” which was supposed to be the plan’s free-market innovation linking individuals to private insurers.

If insuring the uninsured was the real issue, why didn’t RomneyCare simply create the “Connector” in the first place and reform the State Insurance Laws to allow pooling of individuals to allow group rates? Why didn’t they simply allow small businesses to aggregate with other businesses of similar type to allow a more affordable rate of larger businesses????

]]> By: dscott http://www.bizzyblog.com/2008/07/29/romney-defends-romneycare-crackup-wsj-strikes-back/comment-page-1/#comment-123538 dscott Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:40:22 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/?p=7262#comment-123538 <i>Yet partisans are cheering the cost overruns as a sign of success</i> Why of course they are! They put the foot in the door for socialized medicine and eventual take over of the entire medical industry. They are unilaterally demanding all the health care providers and insurance companies pay on some of the deficit spending and the rest to be funded by some kind of tax hike. The pretense of coverage for everyone is now gone, it's now a grab for running the system from top to bottom. They have lots to cheer about from their perspective given that without Romney, they would never have gotten this far to their goals. People so quickly forget that libs are the masters of obfuscation, the initial issue presented was covering people who don't have insurance because the State was paying for indigent care, duh!, the State is still paying for indigent care! <i>a new state entitlement called Commonwealth Care</i> And now they have everyone on the hook to SHARE more in that cost. Now ask yourself what's the difference between Medicaid and Commonwealth Care other than the name and so called objective? Why go through all the motions and more regulations only to accomplish the exact same thing? The lib politicians are now attempting to justify why even more money should be spent on a government program. Let's ask the more revealing questions here, Where is all this money going now that it didn't go there before? Were people any more sick now than before? What exactly is costing more money in the health care system now than before RomneyCare existed that 129 million more dollars are needed? You see under the old system, medical care providers either wrote off unpaid/defaulted bills by the uninsured or got reimbursed by the State for indigent care. Is everyone claiming the needed level of reimbursement is now substancially greater now? Yet partisans are cheering the cost overruns as a sign of success

Why of course they are! They put the foot in the door for socialized medicine and eventual take over of the entire medical industry. They are unilaterally demanding all the health care providers and insurance companies pay on some of the deficit spending and the rest to be funded by some kind of tax hike. The pretense of coverage for everyone is now gone, it’s now a grab for running the system from top to bottom. They have lots to cheer about from their perspective given that without Romney, they would never have gotten this far to their goals.

People so quickly forget that libs are the masters of obfuscation, the initial issue presented was covering people who don’t have insurance because the State was paying for indigent care, duh!, the State is still paying for indigent care! a new state entitlement called Commonwealth Care And now they have everyone on the hook to SHARE more in that cost. Now ask yourself what’s the difference between Medicaid and Commonwealth Care other than the name and so called objective? Why go through all the motions and more regulations only to accomplish the exact same thing? The lib politicians are now attempting to justify why even more money should be spent on a government program.

Let’s ask the more revealing questions here, Where is all this money going now that it didn’t go there before? Were people any more sick now than before? What exactly is costing more money in the health care system now than before RomneyCare existed that 129 million more dollars are needed? You see under the old system, medical care providers either wrote off unpaid/defaulted bills by the uninsured or got reimbursed by the State for indigent care. Is everyone claiming the needed level of reimbursement is now substancially greater now?

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