Posted on 10/04/2012 7:42:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
There are a lot of differences between Obamacare and Romneycare, even though President Barack Obama said that the two plans were based on an "identical model" during the first presidential debate in Denver on Wednesday night.
"We've seen this model work very well," Obama said, "in Massachusetts."
Wrong, countered Mitt Romney. As Massachusetts governor, he passed a health care plan "on a bipartisan basis."
President Obama, said Romney, "instead of bringing America together," rammed through a bill that garnered no support across the aisle. "Something this big, this important," Romney concluded, "has to be done on a bipartisan basis."
Note this: Romney had to work with Democrats. They constituted 87 percent of the Massachusetts Legislature. In Obama's first two years in the White House, Democrats controlled the House and enjoyed a veto-proof majority in the Senate. Obama was able to pass his bill without courting GOP votes. Still, it was a poor choice with consequences.
Obama sulked that his plan was based on a Republican idea. It begs the question, Why did he fail to win a single Republican vote?
If he cannot sell Republicans on what he says is a GOP idea, what good is he?
Obamacare and Romneycare are not identical. They are very different. Romney worked to promote flexibility; Obama and the Democrats imposed uniformity. Romney worked to limit mandates in Massachusetts health care; Obama and a Democratic Congress threw a host of goodies, such as an end to copayments for "preventive care," into the Affordable Care Act. Employers will have to pay for service for which workers used to chip in.
This administration has refined passing the hat. With Congress, the president enacted mandates -- "free" birth control, adult children's being able to stay on their parents' plans up to age 26 -- for which Washington pols do not have to pay. They don't even have to pretend that Congress will have to pay in the future. The private sector pays.
"If you've got health insurance," Obama said of his plan, "it doesn't mean a government takeover."
It's a government takeover without government fiscal responsibility.
Early in the debate, Romney quipped that Obama seems to have levied an "economy tax." Well put. What employer wants to hire new workers when that employer knows that Washington pols know that they can add new mandates at no cost to themselves?
Even before Obamacare goes into full effect, it's clear that this model cannot, as the president promised, "get the cost down so it's more affordable." That's not mathematically possible.
Now that everyone knows that Washington can find services dear to politically important demographic groups and make other people pay for them, there is no controlling health care costs.
Guess you didn’t read my post or understand it. It’s not all about whether Romneycare was constitutional and Obamacare not. It’s not about whether Mitt will go through with scuttling it. It’s about whether it was a good idea in itself, which it wasn’t, and about whether it indirectly helped Obama nationalize healthcare, which it did.
Statist socialism is statist socialism, whether done on a national scale, or piecemeal, state by state.
And while he occasionally pays lip service to federalism, he defends practically every unconstitutional, anti-tenth amendment federal program, including and especially the centerpieces of the New Deal and the Great Society. He is a reliable defender of big government social tinkering across a wide variety of areas not covered by the Enumerated Powers.
He doesn’t oppose big government or socialism. He simply thinks he can do it better than Obama. Which is probably true.
Congratulations on your big “win.”
All you do is repeat democrat and MSM spin.
your agenda is obvious.
that POS communist Obama , Amnesty giving dictatorial POS got crushed last night. LOL
You are about as nimble or subtle as that tack Hannity. Is there anything you can say that’s not a talking point you’ve already posted seven times?
New tagline ...
wtf, did you LISTEN or UNDERSTAND what Romney said in the debate?
Romney said it’s not for the federal government to limit our freedom and choices in healthcare.
Everything Romney said was for limiting the federal government. Romney said he will repeal Obamacare, repeal dod frank, reduce regulations , even privatize medicare. you all probably didn’t understand any of that. Not even Reagan proposed privatizing medicare. oh yeah even that is not Conservative to you all. Romney said he thinks the free market works better than government and will allow the private sector to compete with medicare so that will be the destruction of medicare. but you call that a socialist when it is the opposite . that’s called freedom , limiting the FEDERAL government as the constitution intended. if the people(nuts) in Massachusetts want some socialist program let them , that is the lab.
This is what he said not without your filter, without the MSM filter.
“your agenda is obvious”
I should have expected this level of thought. You are obviously in myopic campaign mode.
Talking points? LOL.This is just what I saw last nite.
Romney destroyed your POS marxist, communist ,POS Obama
go vote for Obama you fool no one
Did Romneycare Control Health Care Costs?
After Six Years of RomneyCare, Mass. Imposes Healthcare Price Controls
Why would I want to let the people in Mass. experiment with socialism? Not that I’d send the army in, or something, but it is bad wherever it’s tried. States may be “laboratories off freedom,” but the fredom to Rene t freedom is not an experiment in freedom. It is the opposite. It’s still an experiment in differentness from other states, but who cares? Wrong is wrong and Romneycare is wrong.
I don’t care if it was constitutional. Good for Rombey tor having some limits. But it’s not enough.
RomneyCare 2.0 With costs rising fast, Massachusetts moves to dictate medical care.
If you basically cut and paste a sentence or paragraph no matter whom you’re posting to and what they’re specifically arguing, yeah, those are talking points.
By the way, it’s not just what he said last night. He’s been saying it since before the primaries, since Romneycare for obvious reasons hounds him.
“Obamacare and Romneycare are not identical. They are very different. Romney worked to promote flexibility;... “
Do you have an issue with the Government supplying ANY healthcare services to anyone ?
Or do you have an issue with a specific provision ?
Not their job
_media, you are not going to get Romney “haters” to change - IMO they want Obama to be re-elected so they have someone to complain about, and can appear “even more conservative” than the rest of us by complaining about the GOP.
I suppose it makes them feel superior.
The object is kick Obama out of office.... remember.
so your not good with Medicare or Medicaid ?
my granny will be pissed.
lolz
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