Posted on 12/21/2011 4:19:21 PM PST by mojito
Requiring people to have health insurance is "conservative," GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney told MSNBC on Wednesday, but only if states do it.
The argument aims to improve Romney's appeal to Republican voters concerned about the healthcare reform plan he signed into law as governor of Massachusetts in 2006. The Massachusetts law contains an individual mandate similar to the one in President Obama's healthcare law, which conservatives despise.
"Personal responsibility," Romney said, "is more conservative in my view than something being given out for free by government."
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Nice surfboard! :-)
Blow it out your socialist @@@, Adolph...
What surfboard?
Just like providing in-state tuition to illegal aliens is not Amnesty, but only if states do it.
Mitt is no conservative, but Newt has no room to talk on this issue. Newt was pushing in May 2011 for the federal government to force me to buy health insurance.
Oh, so slavery is OK at the state level?
No suffrage for women and minorities is OK at the state level?
Cruel and unusual punishment is OK at the state level?
Do you ever get the feeling that all of these Republican candidates are just giving the 2012 election away?
Cain gets caught with the ladies, Newt can’t keep his mouth shut, Paul is a looney toon, Romney can’t admit that government HC is a loser proposition, etc.
I’m almost beginning to become a conspiracy theorist in that they are just handing this election to Obozo.
Mitt, you lie just like odongo does. You’re “birds of a feather”.
There is no difference between either of you two, except you’re a hetorsexual (perceived to be) white cracker with pretty hair. How’s that for racist, you socialist POS.
It's about what the law permits and what it does not.
Yes, states have this latitude...until/unless the USSC rules such universal mandates Constitutional or un-Constitutional.
And, if the usurpation of individual liberty is found to fall under the Bill of Rights, then it's likely to be overturned AT THE STATE LEVEL AS WELL.
Willard is an idiot.
And a fascist, just as most are in government today.
Did you catch what I said?
FASCIST.
When you find yourself in a hole and want to get out, it’s a good idea to just quit digging. I guess mittens never caught on to that concept.
Thanks. I feel better now too. Very pretty beach. Nice sand. ;-)
Yeah, he doubled-down — for the tenth time.
http://www.mass.gov/dor/docs/dor/health-care/2010/hc-cs.pdf
Here is the conservative free market healthcare form Romney makes Mass residents fill out, every year. Note Section 8.
“It may be a states-rights issue, but it sure the heck isn’t conservative.”
My thoughts exactly...
“that they are just handing this election to Obozo.”
While partying big time with election funds.
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