As President, Mitt Romney promises to reform our health care system, because "we can't have as a nation 40 million people- or in my state, half a million saying I don't have insurance, and if I get sick, I want someone else to pay." Romney believes that everyone should pay for health insurance. He is completely in favor of universal health care, and he will promote "a plan similar to that of Massachusetts for the nation if he were elected president." 
   The former governor of Massachusetts wants to implement many reforms. For example, Romney favors prescription drug coverage for seniors and would like to subsidize health insurance for low income Americans. As governor, laws were passed in Massachusetts which banned smoking in some public places in order to improve the health of people in general. As President, Romney would make similar reforms to improve the overall health of the country. 
   Mitt Romney would like to make changes through market reforms which would make private health insurance less expensive and more available but not "with a government takeover." With his universal health care plan in mind, Romney would like people to acquire health insurance by establishing "means-tested state subsidies for people without adequate employer insurance, directing funds designated to compensate for the health costs of the uninsured." He would also instill penalties for those who fail to obtain coverage. In addition, this plan would force employers with eleven or more employees to offer approved health insurance plans to employees. Mitt Romney says that his health care plan is a conservative idea that individuals have a responsibility for their own health care plan. Under this health care plan, "we're going to have insurance for all of our citizens they can afford, that's theirs, that's portable. They never have to worry about losing it, that is the answer."

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