Posted on 08/24/2012 11:01:32 PM PDT by WilliamIII
DENVER — Mitt Romney said in an interview Thursday that his plan to provide universal health insurance in Massachusetts was superior to President Obama's own health care plan.
"My health care plan I put in place in my state has everyone insured, but we didn't go out and raise taxes on people and have a unelected board tell people what kind of health care they can have," Romney said in an interview with CBS' Denver affiliate, KCNC.
Obama's plan was modeled on Romney's, which has made some conservatives wary of the former Massachusetts governor. Some GOP activists were angered when a Romney spokeswoman touted the Massachusetts plan on Fox News earlier this month.
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I know. Statism is the first place he goes. Always.
"I held back from saying a lot of names I have been called in the past six weeks (it wasn't pretty). Fortunately, I had my epiphany much earlier. I had the pleasure of meeting Breitbart at a conference just before he died. He convinced me then, when Newt and Santorum were neck and neck with Romney (I really, really did not want Romney to win the nomination). He said: "Work like hell for the candidate you want, but when it's done, we all have to circle the wagons for who wins, because not to do so will be to rubber stamp and be responsible for the evil of the present administration."I thought about it, and discovered I reluctantly agreed with him. I worked for Newt, hoped Santorum would pull it out after that, and once it was over, went and sulked, but never forgot who is the real enemy.
Now let's pull this together and eviscerate the Marxist creep in the White Hut!!!"
(Well said, David.)
“BASED ON ENTIRELY CONSERVATIVE PRINCIPLES, “
Based entirely on propaganda. RomneyCare has worked out so well for MA that they now impose price controls on their “free market” healthcare providers. I’ll also add that this “conservative” plan is subsidized. Over half of those “uninsured” people who signed up for RomneyCare get it entirely for free. Mittens entire point of the mandate was for “no more free riders.” So now the free riders get it legit. Meanwhile, prices continue to go up on those who aren’t free riders, in order to insure the legit free riders in the first place.
We lost this election for the presidency long ago, but we need to try to salvage the rest. Tea party sweep in November!! Vote the dirty rat bastards out!! All of them!!
True. And his 2nd stop is homosexualism. I have no idea the attraction that has to him, but about every month he likes to give the world a little more insight into his affinity for the gay agenda.
Who is paying for it Romney and what level care do they get? Why don’t you talk about what Obamacare really is. It’s not healthcare. I believe Obamacare was modeled after Hillary;s secret healthcare. Romneycare probably fits somewhere in between and will he take down a lot of it or all?
I am sick of politicians skirting the issues which are nothing but lies.
I’m still hoping and praying for a miracle at the convention and Newt or Sarah or Rick somehow can wrestle the nomination from Romney.
I had toyed with the idea of voting for Ryan, but if Romney is correct that Ryan now believes in abortion exceptions for rape and incest, then Ryan has been compromised and neither of them are worthy of my vote.
I do live in California, so it isn’t going to matter anyway, but it is the principle of the thing.
Eager, no. But, hey, that seems to be "the FReeper way", doesn't it? I don't know which is worse: shunning principle or casting a "vote" for Obama by NOT voting for Romney.
I thought about that too....writing in Ryan. A slightly compromised Ryan is still lightyears ahead of liberal Mitt.
How would the pregnant chad floridians have counted that one? LOL.
This was the last bastion of the rebellion against Romney. Many have given into the temptation to replace a black homosexualist, abortion loving, gun grabbing socialist for a white one. Not me.
Romney's only redeeming quality is that he is not Obama. Well, I'm not Obama either. Why don't you write me in on your ballot.
What you might do is just draw a line through Romney's name and then check the R box. It will be rejected by the voting machine but it would likely be counted as a Romney vote when it is hand counted 3 months after the election has been certified.
FWIW, I chucked my principles to vote for Schwarzenegger in hopes of saving California from fiscal suicide.
How’d that work out?
My theory revolves around the LDS Temple Ritual.
It’s like Godfather III - just when you think you’re out, they pull you back in!
We’ve got one of those new-fangled, touch-screen voting gizmos. There’s a write-in button, but I’ve never tried it yet.
Definitely will this year.
Just to be honest, Goode has sort of disappeared from the universe. Maybe he’s just focused on getting on ballots. He’s obviously a money-poor candidate, so his best bet for coverage is to set himself on fire in front of the Vietnamese Embassy, but that would curtail his campaign, too.
It’s an unwelcome dilemma, but at least he’s on the ballot here in Ohio.
Depending on what it looks like in November, I might just write in Ryan.
words of advice: forget romneycare. it’s a big skeleton in your closet. close the door again, and keep it closed!
Dumb like a fox.
Romney was the only Republican running with the credible record to show independents he was serious about expanding healthcare coverage and assuage their fears over "repeal and replace" of ObamaCare.
Having claimed to model ObamaCare after his state plan, Democrats can't attack him on this critical issue (it's 2nd or 3rd in polling data of election issues) while he can attack them for "doing it wrong."
I live in Massachusetts. Here’s what I know about Romneycare. My neighbor is in his late 50s & lost his job. He found something part-time without health benifits. Romneycare REQUIRES that you have health insurance....so this guy applied for something called Mass-care which is part of Romneycare,
Because of his low wages he pays about $107 a month for full medical, dental & drug plan ! I on the other hand work, and am paying about $600 a month with a work related health plan.
My neighbor has decided to stop looking for full time work cause he loves this situation. He’s going to coast on Romneycare until he’s 62 & then take his SS. I’m not happy about this. No taxpayer should be.
It is so hard to imagine getting your stuff washed at church, but there are some weird rituals out there.
My brother is a big Mason-type. I never joined. In any case, he was getting promoted to Head Water Buffalo one year, and he invited me to the ceremony.
I sat there amused the entire time. It was SOOOO corny....hats, bows, deferential titles. Just corny.
Give me a church service any day of the week. At least our ritual and tradition makes sense. (And we don’t do junk washings.)
People, E, Comedy Central, Letterman, Leno, and SNL...where America gets its news.
Part of me feels for them, though, because the alphabet news talking heads are universally believed to be rank partisans, and they are universally boring.
So, if you’re gonna listen to a rank partisan, anyway, it might as well be entertaining.
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