Making Gouliani's health care plan look good

[Johonny]

Separately, Romney took another jab at the Bush administration's management of the federal bureaucracy. Saying he supports an expanded private health insurance system instead of one run by the government, Romney added: "The last thing I want is the guys managing the Katrina cleanup managing my health care system."

Expand private health care? What does that mean? Is he going to get rid of Medicare, the FDA, the prescription drug program... I mean he doesn't have many options it's not like the health insurance system is exactly government run already. Hey guess what the Romney right now no one manages the health care system. Is no management better than someone looking out, you know, for the public good? Cleary not because Mitt goes on to point out Katrina would go a lot better with good management. Is Mitt going to have you believe that Katrina would have run better if you had to get notification that a hurricane was going to hit New Orleans from your private Meteorological center, help evacuating would come from your private evacuation company, that food and water would get to you from your private disaster relief people, that the levy's would have been better had each individual built a private levy for their home, that the billions needed to repair the city would come from the private oops you had a natural disaster let me rebuild your city company. Yeah you might not want a Republican operative that doesn't believe the government works thus hence the government doesn't work managing the Katrina cleanup, but doesn't mean a good manager couldn't do a heck of a lot better both in New Orleans and in our health care system. Republicans have gone from the party of bad ideas, to the party of no ideas to now the party of phrases that kinda sound good but really are nonsensical. Privatize the private health insurance system. Huh?

[RaleighNCDUer]

1. You expand private health insurance by having the government

mandate that everyone buys health insurance - whether they can pay for it or not. Just think of it -- $3,600/year x 45 million people, pouring into the coffers of the insurance companies.

And if you don't have the money, I guess there's the work camps for you...

[rucky]

3. And starvation-related illness will not be covered.

and that's not murder, becaaaaaause?

[hfojvt]

4. that was Romney's Massachusetts plan

How's it working for them? It seems to me that Romney is trying to appeal to the anti-government base. I'm expecting alot of the S-word in this campaign.

[Johonny]

5. I imagine it won't work

You can mandate it but it seems unlikely people that can't afford it will buy it. People drive around without a license or insurance all the time. The only way to get such a program to work would be to mandate and regulate at the corporate level and well no Republican would do that...

[Bitwit1234]

2. He should be one who really wants health insurance available.

Remember he has prostate cancer, in remission.