Mitt Romney kills his presidential dreams
I like Mitt Romney, but his health care proposal, as outlined by himself in an op-ed in today’s Boston Herald, is garbage built on the transparent lie that it will pay for itself. What a joke. The plan, if enacted, will become an enormously expensive and politically untouchable boondoggle that won’t even do much, if anything, to improve people’s health.
Subsidized coverage? Sliding scales? Income-based premiums? No deductible? Limited co-pays? Did I just die and wake in up in Old Country hell? This plan will create a new class of worthless bureaucrats, and it will give every Mass. politician an easy instrument to promise voters more for less: Why not scrap co-pays altogether? Why not expand the plan to include all Mass. residents? Abortions for some, miniature American flags for the rest, as a great - though fictional - political strategist once said.
I can’t imagine that social moderates in the Republican party, who might well have looked favorably upon Romney, will support such fiscal and policy lunacy.
