Barbour: Romneycare 'Not Good' for States
The Hill reports:
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) on Tuesday piled on the Massachusetts healthcare program critics have dubbed "RomneyCare."
Barbour, a possible Republican candidate for president, said in congressional testimony that while it was the right of Massachusetts to have its own healthcare plan — enacted by then-Gov. Mitt Romney (R) — such a plan would be detrimental to most states."Massachusetts has a state health insurance program that they're happy with. And that's their right," Barbour said in a hearing on healthcare reform before the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
"We don't want that. That's not good for us," Barbour added. "We don't want community rating. We don't want extremely high mandatory standard benefits packages."
The Mississippi governor's shot is the latest by a possible Republican presidential candidate toward "RomneyCare," the healthcare reforms that Romney, another likely candidate, had sought as governor.
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