by Geoffrey Pike

Created on: October 29, 2007

HillaryCare and RomneyCare are actually very similar. The legislation passed in Massachusetts is very similar to what Hillary is now proposing for the country. Mitt Romney likes to say that he is for free market solutions, but don't be fooled by his rhetoric. He is a socialist like Hillary. He was against an amendment to abolish the state income tax in Massachusetts and he increased spending every year.

RomneyCare in Massachusetts basically mandated that everyone get health insurance. Since Hillary's fully socialized plan failed back in 1993, she decided to get clever and not expose her agenda too much. Therefore, she is now proposing a similar plan of mandating health insurance. Of course, her hope is that this would eventually lead to a national government takeover of the entire health care system.

Mandating health insurance is ridiculous. The government (both state and federal) makes health care so expensive with all of the regulations and taxes associated with it. Health care used to be inexpensive and high quality in this country. Think about the 1950's when doctors would make house calls and it didn't cost you a ridiculous amount of money if you didn't have insurance.

Now that the government has made health insurance and medical care so expensive, it wants to mandate it? The government should get out of the business of health care and leave it up to doctors, patients, insurance companies, and charities to work out health care decisions. Do you really want Hillary Clinton or Mitt Romney deciding what health plan is best for you?

Let's get the government out of health care and we can quickly lower prices and make health care affordable again. We can get the inexpensive and high quality health care of the 1950's again, combined with 21st century technology.

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