Mitt Romney in 2010 defended the individual mandate in RomneyCare saying that it was the best of three options to support the uninsured. He also says that he only likes RomneyCare for Massachusetts and insists that he wouldn’t roll it out as a federal plan, but he would be OK if other states chose to adopt a similar plan.
What I thought was interesting was how he started his answer. He described his three options, the freeloader option, the individual mandate option, or the business mandate option as the only options that exist to deal with the uninsured in our country. That’s very interesting. He seems to have only been looking through the eyes of government intervention to come up with that.
Also he admits that there is a penalty incentive for those who can afford health care but refuse to purchase health care in Mass. Either you provide the ones that do purchase health care a check (subsidy) or you just force the ones who don’t buy into the system to purchase it through taxation. I don’t like either option!
I’ve never liked him all that much as a candidate, but I’m liking him even less and less the more I hear about RomneyCare. The funny thing is he never admits that he wishes he hadn’t done it and he never talks about how it’s bankrupting the state of Massachusetts now. He just says it isn’t perfect but he still likes it.
I thought this would be an interesting clip to post before he does his new “here’s what I think about health care now” speech. Since I’m not big on smearing people, I’ve provided his entire answer to the question of comparing his plan vs Obama’s plan:
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