Mitt Romney is nr.1 most popular GOP's presidential candidate and Palin is 2. Would you vote either of them?

My family fled east, ending up in Massachusetts (myself, my daughter and her two little girls) in the late 1990s to escape a rapist/stalker and the injustice of having him try to take custody of the little girl if he had to pay even one penny of child support (which we did not want from him anyway---we didn't even want him to know where we were, but the GOP's "welfare reforms" during Clinton years worked against our safety, so we just left everything behind and got the heck out of Dodge, so to speak). In Massachusetts, my daughter and grandchildren were covered by the UHC and this was actually a bit of a godsend since everything else is so completely over-priced on that state (a dozen eggs, small ones, were over $2 when I could buy them for 49 cents in Missouri back then). My daughter was in two severe car accidents as a passenger (the first one from the Hyannis police chasing a joy-riding teenager who had swiped his rich uncle's new Cadillac, with speeds over 108 in a 30 mph residential zone despite a death from the police doing that very same thing only a few months earlier in the very same residential zone---the teen's Cadillac struck the small car my daughter was in nearly head-on---the young man driving her tried to turn at the last second so that the hit would be on his side (he ended up dying later on the operating table) and my young daughter had to be CUT from the squashed car and airlifted into Boston, where among other things she lost her spleen.

This was all covered by the UHC, and my daughter survived somehow although a hairline crack in her arm did not show itself until she tried to lift her youngest daughter a week after she got out of the hospital, at which time the bone split in two different places. Don't you find the hypocrisy interesting among Republicans in the back-pocket of health insurance lobbyists, though? They demonized the coverage for more than 30 million Americans, these well-insured and medically covered Republicans, and fought FIERCELY (for no good reason) against the consumer-protecting reforms for the 1300 greed-driven for-profit insurers---legislations that the Democrats somehow managed to get through with no help from the Republicans, my dearly disorganized Democrats showing some real BACKBONE for a change.

I was proud when they succeeded in passing both the Health Care and Insurance Reforms and the subsequent Fix It bill that contained the Committee Mark-Up changes (such as college students being able to now make low-interest DIRECT LOANS through the Department of Education, eliminating high-interest banks as middlemen---lowering the cost of higher education for students nationwide).

The Massachusetts effort -- which was focused on coverage, not cost -- worked. It has been a success. It has radically cut the number of uninsured residents.

It has come in at about the cost predicted. It has proved popular. According to the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation in its report this spring put the cost to the state taxpayer at about $88 million a year, less than four-tenths of 1 percent of the state budget of $27 billion.

Yes, the state recently had to cut benefits for legal immigrants, and safety-net hospital Boston Medical Center has sued for higher state aid. But that is because the recession has cut state revenues, not because universal healthcare is a boondoggle.

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