Friday, May 13, 2011
'Romney: It's All Over But the Losing'
Brutal. But it's a representative sample of the reaction on the right to Romney's big speech yesterday. ... There's a part of me who respects Romney for sticking by his guns on the health-care bill he signed. I thought he'd cynically, cravingly distance himself from it. The fact is the state's universal health-care program isn't working as badly as critics assert. It hasn't cost the state as much money as feared. The program preserves a free-enterprise (non-single payer) approach toward health care. Tens of thousands of people have signed up for private health insurance, removing them from the ranks of health-care freeloaders. True, the system hasn't reduced escalating health-care costs, but that's not what the first stage of the program was supposed to do.
Still, no amounts of facts are going to persuade some critics that the Massachusetts system is anything less than a disaster. ... Thanks to Reader No. 1 for the VodkaPundit tip.
Brutal. But it's a representative sample of the reaction on the right to Romney's big speech yesterday. ... There's a part of me who respects Romney for sticking by his guns on the health-care bill he signed. I thought he'd cynically, cravingly distance himself from it. The fact is the state's universal health-care program isn't working as badly as critics assert. It hasn't cost the state as much money as feared. The program preserves a free-enterprise (non-single payer) approach toward health care. Tens of thousands of people have signed up for private health insurance, removing them from the ranks of health-care freeloaders. True, the system hasn't reduced escalating health-care costs, but that's not what the first stage of the program was supposed to do.
Still, no amounts of facts are going to persuade some critics that the Massachusetts system is anything less than a disaster. ... Thanks to Reader No. 1 for the VodkaPundit tip.
