Ted Kennedy in No Apology, by Gov. Mitt Romney (R, MA)

On Health Care: 2006: Supported RomneyCare as model for other states

The plan we ultimately constructed & proposed to the legislature relied on three basic components:

Those who could afford insurance would either buy it pay their own health-care costs--no more free riders showing up at the hospital expecting to ge care at tax-payers' expense
For those who couldn't afford health insurance on their own, the state would pay a portion of their premium with the amount of the subsidy determined on a sliding scale by income
To make it easier to insurers to service individual customers, the state would create a "connector" or "exchange" that would collect premiums and pass them on to the insurers.

Our first stop was the office of Ted Kennedy. He saw an opportunity to work on a bipartisan experiment that might become a model for other states. He quickly grasped the structure of our program, and he agreed to support our approach. The bill wasn't perfect; nothing that groundbreaking could be. But it was a big improvement over what we had. Source: No Apology, by Mitt Romney, p.173-175 Mar 2, 2010

The above quotations are from No Apology: The Case for American Greatness, by Gov. Mitt Romney. Click here for main summary page. Click here for a profile of Ted Kennedy. Click here for Ted Kennedy on all issues.
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