Greenbeard
Gold Member
Sometimes it's difficult to tell if Romney just plays dumb or if he really just doesn't follow public policy developments.
Fine ideas he's suggesting that have already been adopted and are being run with as we speak: consumer-friendly health insurance plan ratings, the introduction of out-of-state plans to "decrease monopolies of health insurers," innovation grants for states to enact novel tort reforms, payment reform to move away from fee-for-service, the proliferation of the principles underlying integrated delivery systems like Intermountain, investment in electronic health record adoption and health information exchange, and greater emphasis on wellness incentives. Though his position on the particular rules of the individual market and the precise structure of the tax benefits for buying insurance in it seem to have evolved, the designs that were settled on won't be unfamiliar to him.