I like the part where Mitt says Kennedy wants a government takeover of healthcare.

It’s fitting Romney is from a big baseball state. Like a utility player, he can play all 9 positions on one issue. One could argue he could bat DH, putting him up to 10 positions.

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“..penalized by prison time in some cases”

Has this actually happened? how many? link?

“the federal government would offer incentives to states to take their own necessary steps to bring down the cost of health insurance.”

This is Romney’s fulcrum -his be-all-things-to-all-people. For the primary election he takes a dramatic shift to the right. For the general, he plans to take takes an enormous shift to the left.

http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/republican_candidates_debate.html
As of May 07, 372,000 in Mass. didn’t have coverage and half of the 140,000 eligible for subsidized insurance hadn’t signed up for it. The state required mandates had to be lowered because a whopping 200,000 didn’t meet the required mandates.

Wouldn’t the lowered mandates require more gov’t subsidies?

Mass paints the most rosey picture for healthcare since it’s the third most wealthy state in the nation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_of_the_United_States_by_income

How to cover residents of poorer states who’s residents make 60% of the average Mass resident?

Time to dust off the phrase “fuzzy math”.

Since Romney has recently morphed into a Tancrado-wannabe on immigration, my question to him would be this:

Since “universal health care” is necessary for your plan to be financially solvent, does that apply to the 12 million illegal immigrants?

What say you Mitt? Will illegals be left to die because they aren’t privileged to your healthcare? Or will my tax dollars fund an illegal who’s crooked teeth “require” braces?

I suppose the answer to that question depends on the state from which I ask it. A-la immigration and South Carolina and Florida.

It’s one thing for politicians to promise that their mandates [Romney’s RomneyCare] will decrease costs, it’s quite another when it comes to implementing the plan, writes the estimable Sally Pipes in a townhall.com article titled Lessons …