BY TOM DWYER
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
COMMENTARY
Likely Republican nominee Mitt Romney is crafting his health care policy and examining the feasibility of a plan that would give Americans tax breaks in order to purchase their own health insurance coverage.
This position would provide many more options for consumers to choose from.
Some experts believe that providing incentives that allow Americans to shop for their health insurance would bring the benefits of market competition and actually help reduce the high cost of coverage.
This represents a dramatic change of direction for the former Massachusetts governor, who once signed into law that guaranteed coverage for all of his state's residents and required that they purchase health insurance. The individual mandate of the Massachusetts law is quite similar to President Obama's hotly debated national health plan. This will surely be fodder for the President's campaign attack ads.
