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September 18, 2007
Call and Raise
I'll have much, much more to say about HillaryCare II over the coming days, but one question comes immediately to mind: How will Governor Mitt Romney attack HillaryCare II if he winds up with the Republican nomination? Hillary now advocates mandatory coverage for all, required contributions by large employers, tax subsidies for individual insurance premiums, guaranteed issue by insurers (that is, cross-subsidies from the young and healthy to the old and ill), and expansion of federal insurance programs for the uninsured, for the "underinsured," and for poor adults not now eligible for Medicaid.
So: How, precisely, does this differ from the Romney Massachusetts plan? And how will he argue against it? After all, if it's good enough for Red Sox fans, why not fans of the Cubs, oops, Yankees? And Dodgers and Giants and Rangers and everyone? Lots of luck, Mitt; that's what happens when you sacrifice principle for short term political advantage.
Posted by Benjamin Zycher at September 18, 2007 04:27 PM
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