Romney outlines plan to overturn health care bill

“Ironic he created the same bloated donkey of a law for Boston isn’t it?”

I think that in the past Mitt supported the idea of making Romneycare mandatory, but at the individual state level- let each state figure out how to implement the fed mandate, as long as they met certain fed standards. I don’t have the reference handy, though.

Remember Alinsky. Never let a crisis go to waste. Romney has set on the sidelines on the health care bill, and now that it’s really happening and is a crisis, he’s going to jump on it.

Too late, should have spoken up sooner and provided leadership when something could be done about it.

Some "plan".

Defunding programs is temporary and repels votes.

Repeal is the only option.

That requires the Presidency, both Houses and a veto-proof majority in the Senate.

Saying he has a plan is disingenuous.

Coming from a guy who spins the health care bill he signed, I’d say Mitt should just get lost on this subject.

Well, cutting off funding is a good sound bite, but it still leaves the law on the books. It’s not the answer. Neither is talking out of both sides of one’s mouth as Romney is prone to do. He defends his Massachusetts health care fiasco, yet uses the unpopularity of the federal version of the same to gain support for 2012. Romney will never, ever, get my support.

This clown just doesn’t know when to stop.

I’m glad R’s are starting to talk about this as a platform item. But what about REPEAL THE STIMULUS.

The time for this platform was before Nov 2008. It’s too late. This is all posturing by Republicans.Healthcare takes a treacherous turn at some point today.

Aborting this plan before it is born is the only surefire way to kill it!

I agree and it’s not “clueless behavior”. It’s treason.

I like it, please can we allow ourselves to build some momentum? It is gutsy and concrete for Romney to lay this out there.

How about MR over turns RomneyCare first.

If it works I really don’t care whose idea it is.

Amazing. When the issue was OBAMACARE/ROMNEY,
Where was Romney? As the article says:

“Speaking in Dallas yesterday as part of the publicity tour for his new book, No Apology”

Mitt RomneyCARE was SELLING HIS ghostwritten BOOK,
helping Gore push the fraud of climate change,
and attacking the "tea party".

PROOF THAT OBAMACARE/ROMNEYCARE IS A PROVEN FINANCIAL FAILURE

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Mass. State Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill (I): RomneyCARE
is bankrupting Massachusetts and will do the same nationally.

"Romney admitted ... that about half of the real costs of "extending
coverage to the uninsured... is covered by federal tax dollars.

Mr. Romney's RomneyCARE is doing what entitlements do: crowding
out private insurers, compounding the cost explosion, walking the state toward rationing.

From CATO (the whole article is worthwhile): "Of the 133,000 people who have signed up for insurance since the plan was
implemented, slightly more than half have received totally free coverage."

"Health Care Speechwriter for Edwards, Obama & Clinton Now Without Health Insurance"
I'm a critic because what Washington is talking about doing
has made health insurance unaffordable in Massachusetts.

"Small businesses bridle at health insurance hikes (Romneycare strangles Mass. businesses)
some really bad news from Blue Cross-Blue Shield: His company's health insurance rates are going up 47 percent in January."

" Rationing medicine has already begun
… government-
run health care has introduced rationing and waiting lists and cost the lives of the people under its provisions."

"DEATH PANELS OPEN FOR BUSINESS IN MASSACHUSETTS"

"President Obama's newly confirmed regulatory czar defended the
possibility of removing organs from terminally ill patients without their permission."

"You can't reap these savings without limiting patients' choices in some way," said Paul Levy, CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess."

"State plan may place limits on patients' hospital options( Mass. RomneyCare )"

"Romney Visits Nebraska, Talks Health Care [where he defends Romneycare] "

"Paying the Health Tax in Massachusetts [Romneycare]
Unless we ponied up for a pricier policy we
neither need nor want-or enrolled in a government-sponsored insurance plan-we
would have to pay $1,000 each year to the state.
How did we become outlaws?"

The Massachusetts debacle, coming soon to your neighborhood."
The state's overall costs on health programs have increased by 42% (!) since 2006."

A Very Sick Health Plan; Bay State's 'Grand Experiment' Fails [RomneyCare]

Health care in Massachusetts: a warning for America [Romney brings Mass. to its knees]
The Bay State's mandatory insurance law is raising costs, limiting access, and lowering care. "

"'Severe' doc shortage seen hiking wait time
"The shortage is getting more severe""

"Health costs to rise again.( RomneyCare )
The state's major health insurers plan to raise premiums by about 10 percent next year"

"Nation's ill-advised to follow Mass. plan [Health plan a failure]
September 17, 2009 The canary is dead."

"Bay State Insurance Premiums Highest in Country - Boston Globe August 22, 2009"

"Massachusetts: the laboratory for ObamaCare"

"Massachusetts' Obama-like reforms increase health costs, wait times [RomneyCare]
Premiums are growing 21 to 46 percent faster than the national average"

"Mass. Pushes Rationing to Control Universal Healthcare Costs (RomneyCare)"

"1,000 cancer patients 'refused treatment'"

"Massachusetts Universal Healthcare System Breaking Down Already"

"Hospital patients 'left in agony'"

"Mr. Romney should have known better before signing on to this not-so-grand experiment, especially since the state's "free market" reforms that he boasts about have proven to be irrelevant when not fictional.
Only 21,000 people have used the "connector" that was supposed to link individuals to private insurers."

A Very Sick Health Plan; Bay State's 'Grand Experiment' Fails [RomneyCare]
Even though the Bay State commenced its program with a far smaller percentage of uninsured residents than exists nationwide,
"RomneyCare" is threatening to bankrupt the state."

"Dem Congresswoman Admits Obama Health Care Plan Will Destroy Private Health Insurance Industry"

"Romney's mistreatments a sick man,"

Every single non-dem will run on this same idea.

it’s not like he’s the first one to think of this.

GEEZ...Mitt the attention whore!

“That he promoted the same crap in mass. will hurt him badly - very badly.”

Great point, and we need to back candidates who aren’t so tainted otherwise we risk wasting our votes. Guys trying to play both sides will lose elections, and rightfully so.

I am thankful, however, for all who speak out with ideas/gameplans for the future. Communism is at our doorstep and it must be killed.

Nobody wants RomneyCARE or ROMNEY.

RESULTS – Feb. 2010 Early Freerepublic.com straw vote FOR GOP PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION
Governor Palin was the overwhelming choice of freepers who voted!
Palin - 102 votes - THE WINNER
None Of The Above - 12 votes
Barbour - 10 votes
Hunter - 8 votes
Demint - 7 votes
Pence - 3 votes
Ryan - 3 votes
Jindal - 2 votes
Jeb Bush - 2 votes
Liz Cheney - 2 votes
Mitch Daniels - 2 votes
Newt Gingrich - 2 votes
Thune, Gary Johnson, Joe Wilson, Scott Brown and rick Perry all got a vote.
No Votes for Mitt RomneyCARE or Ron Paul or Huckabee .... 0 votes (none, zed, nada, doughnut, oh-no) “

Didn’t he give it to Massachusetts? He’ll never get my vote.....

"RomneyCare = ObamaCare."

Bears repeating.

One of the principal reasons Obamacare has come this far is that people saw RomneyCare implemented - and they don't see its failures, just that it passed.
So Mitt Romney bears a great deal of personal responsibility if Obamacare passes.

Well, cutting off funding is a good sound bite, but it still leaves the law on the books.

Agreed.

Everything the 111th has done needs to be rolled back.

I want to hear, clear and strong and repeated ad nauseum, that healthcare is not constitutionally the federal government's business. And I want to hear Romney talking publicly about what a mistake Massachusetts healthcare was and why government running healthcare is a bad idea.

Withholding funding is a temporary stopgap at best, certainly not worthy of an election platform.