Something else I don't get
Ever since Mitt Romney came up with "Romneycare" in Massachusetts- a scheme whereby folks are legally required to have health insurance- I've been a bit puzzled by the whole concept. The problem becomes acute because there has been talk lately of health care reform taking the form of something similar on a national scale- a scenario in which if you don't buy health insurance, you'll have to pay a fine of $3,800.
Ok. So health insurance is too expensive. You're poor. You can't afford to buy it. The solution to this is to levy a $3,800 fine (and you presumably don't have that much money, or else you would be able to buy health insurance) and in essence assess a civil penalty for poverty?
And this is supposed to help- how? Help me out here.
ADDENDUM: Gov. Romney's association with this truly bad idea is one of the chief reservations I have about him as a presidential candidate. But he has company in wanting to fine people for not being able to afford health insurance as some kind of solution to the fact that... well, they can't afford health insurance.
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