Idiot agrees with Obamacare instead of saying what the majority of Americans say that we need something else.
Something is amiss, here.
Pre-existing conditions might be in Obamacare, but they already exist in the HIPAA, which was passed with Republican support under Bill Clinton.
So this is not really an Obamacare thing. Romney can feel free to support it, because Republicans support HIPAA.
As far as the insuring children up to age 26, it has an important omission, due to an oddity in the law.
Because of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978, companies that provide health insurance to their workers must cover pregnancies *of their workers*. Importantly, but *not* of their children.
And in Obamacare, the PD Act takes precedence, so children whose parents are covered by it do not get pregnancy coverage under Obamacare.
And for those 26 and under, pregnancy is by far the most expensive medical cost they incur. Otherwise, they just need a tiny amount of coverage, as a group.
So in balance, the parts of Obamacare that Romney embraces either are redundant or don’t cost very much at all.
This article and your title are horseshit
>Romney, who faces Obama in the Nov. 6 election, has vowed throughout the campaign to repeal and replace the Obama healthcare law........ “Well, I’m not getting rid of all of healthcare reform.”<
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Why should anyone be surprised in Mitt’s pronouncement?
Didn’t Romneycare metastasize into Bambicare?
If its so good, ALL should have to live under it. Including the politicians that are forcing it upon us.
Once you give people “free” things, it is nearly impossible to take them away.
EVEN IF, a republican president and congress were to repeal the ACA, they would NEVER do it without a carefully crafted media campaign explaining that while they are repealing the law, they will also immediately implement all the feel good parts of it with no time delay. To do otherwise would be political suicide.
And that’s basically what Romney is saying. That is, “The Act as it is is a behemoth. The mandates are the biggest. I will repeal the act but then we, as a government, will implement several smaller acts to retain the good portions of the Act.”
those “good portions” are, of course, the “free” stuff that “the people” are already enjoying: No pre-ex, coverage to 26, the birth control stuff (that one might go away though), no recission, etc.
And frankly, the ACA was written by the health insurance industry. I think they spend the most on lobbying of any industry. They LOVE the mandate. The MCR rules were a concession that they’d love to see go away, and a GOP pres/congress might be able to make that happen, as a concession to remove the mandate. I would love for that whole debate to be transparent, as I think it would open a lot of American eyes as to how this stuff really works.
As for myself, I’d repeal it all — except for the provision that says the mandate may not be considered a tax.
This is the kind of liberal Establishment RINOism that loses elections.
Remember, during the primaries, Romney supporter Pam Bondi (who as Florida AG led the lawsuit against the unconstitutional Obamacare bill) said that they intended to repeal Obamacare and help establish Romneycare in every state.
Romneycare essentially IS Obamacare.