Myth Romney working to reshape GOP's image into socialism [talks about health insurance]

Mitt Romney chortles, as he inflicts his socialized medicine (HillaryCARE=ROmneyCARE)
upon the Massachusetts citizens.

"Hospital patients 'left in agony'"
"Patients were allegedly left screaming in pain and drinking from flower vases on a nightmare hospital ward.
Between 400 and 1,200 more people died than would have been expected at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust over three years, a damning Healthcare Commission report said.
The watchdog's investigation found inadequately trained staff who were too few in number, junior doctors left alone in charge at night and patients left without food, drink or medication as their operations were repeatedly cancelled.
Patients were left in pain or forced to sit in soiled bedding for hours at a time and were not given their regular medication, the Commission heard.
Receptionists with no medical training were expected to assess patients coming in to A&E, some of whom needed urgent care.
Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director of the NHS, said there had been a "gross and terrible breach" of patients' trust and a "complete failure of leadership".
The Healthcare Commission's chairman Sir Ian Kennedy said the investigation followed concerns about a higher than normal death rate at the Trust, which senior managers could not explain.
He said: "The resulting report is a shocking story. Our report tells a story of appalling standards of care and chaotic systems for looking after patients. These are words I have not previously used in any report.
"There were inadequacies in almost every stage of caring for patients. There was no doubt that patients will have suffered and some of them will have died as a result."
Julie Bailey, 47, was so concerned about the care being given to her 86-year-old mother Bella at Stafford Hospital that she and her relatives slept in a chair at her bedside for eight weeks.
She said: "We saw patients drinking out of..."

"Paramedics told: 'Let accident victims die if they want to' in new row over patient rights (UK)"
Health Service paramedics have been told not to resuscitate terminally-ill patients who register on a controversial new database to say they want to die.
It has been set up by the ambulance service in London for hundreds of people who have only a few months to live so that they may register their 'death wishes' in advance.
It is believed to be the first in the country, but other trusts around the country are expected to follow suit to comply with Government guidelines which state that patients' wishes should be taken into account, even at the point of death.
Patients' groups and doctors have welcomed the scheme, but it has met opposition from pro-life groups who say it violates the sanctity of life.
The system would come into play if a cancer patient, for example, was in serious pain and rang 999 for help to alleviate the suffering.
But if the paramedics arrived and the patient was close to death, he or she would not be resuscitated if such a request was registered on the database.
This would also be the case if a patient on the database was being transferred between hospitals, and had a heart attack.
Dominica Roberts from the Pro-Life Alliance said: 'This is very sad and very dangerous. It's another step along the slippery slope, at the bottom of which is euthanasia as we see in Holland. 'Paramedics should be there to save lives. They should not be there to let patients die. The medical profession should not agree with someone's belief that their life is worthless.'"

"National Health Preview - The Massachusetts debacle, coming soon to your neighborhood."
"Three years ago, the former Massachusetts Governor had the inadvertent good sense to create the "universal" health-care program that the White House and Congress now want to inflict on the entire country.
It is proving to be instructive, as Mr. Romney's foresight previews what President Obama, Max Baucus, Ted Kennedy and Pete Stark are cooking up for everyone else.
In Massachusetts's latest crisis, Governor Deval Patrick and his Democratic colleagues are starting to move down the path that government health plans always follow when spending collides with reality -- i.e., price controls.
As costs continue to rise, the inevitable results are coverage restrictions and waiting periods. It was only a matter of time.

They're trying to manage the huge costs of the subsidized middle-class insurance program that is gradually swallowing the state budget.
The program provides low- or no-cost coverage to about 165,000 residents, or three-fifths of the newly insured, and is budgeted at $880 million for 2010, a 7.3% single-year increase that is likely to be optimistic.
The state's overall costs on health programs have increased by 42% (!) since 2006.

What really whipped along RomneyCare were claims that health care would be less expensive if everyone were covered.
But reducing costs while increasing access are irreconcilable issues.
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]
"The Daily News Record, Harrisonburg, Va. - 2009-03-31 "
"For folks increasingly leery of President Obama’s plan to radically overhaul America’s health-care system,
or 17 percent of the nation’s economy, all this could hardly have come at a better time —
that is, fiscal troubles aplenty within Repubican Mitt Romney’s brainchild, Massachusetts’ “grand experiment” in “universal” health care."

"Initiated on Mr. Romney’s gubernatorial watch in 2006, this “experiment” has fallen on hard times, and predictably so.
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. Budgeted for Fiscal Year 2010 at $880 million,
or 7.3 percent more than a year ago, this plan, aimed at providing low- or no-cost health coverage to roughly 165,000 residents,
has caused Massachusetts’ overall expenditures on all health-related programs to jump an astounding 42 percent since 2006.

So what does Mr. Romney’s successor, Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick, propose as a remedy for these skyrocketing costs?
Well, whaddya think? The standard litany of prescriptions (no pun intended) — price controls and spending caps, for a start, and then, again predictably, waiting periods and limitations on coverage.
As in Europe and Canada, so too in Massachusetts. And, we feel certain, everyone from Mr. Romney to Mr. Patrick said, “It would never happen here.”
But then, such things are inevitable when best-laid plans, with all their monstrous costs, run smack-dab into fiscal reality.

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

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Romney is “hair” there and everywhere lately...

Counting down to all of us being called bigoted Romney haters...

IBTMB??

This Romney is so out of touch with the people that he doesn’t fathom the deep resentment and frustration! That goes for both Republicans and Democrats!

He could learn a lot from Glenn Beck Show of May 1, 2009 !

No messing with socialism for me! Eliminate Income Tax! Much much smaller government! No intrution in people’s lives!

Get it, Mitt?

Unable to connect though this caught my attention: "But the group steered clear of abortion and same-sex marriage -- wedge issues that have led to the defection of moderates and independents."

Video of Sarah Palin's speech at Right To Life dinner in Evansville, Indiana on Apr 16, 2009.

GET BENT WILLIARD!

Go the hell away, Romney. You are part of the GOP that needs to swept out with the trash. Phony, soft, wussy, non-confrontational, inconsistent, unprincipled, moderate, get-along types. Get lost, your group blew it, now beat it.

Couldn't have said it better myself!!!

Romney doesn’t want abortion to be discussed because he is a good-timing phony-baloney on the issue. He makes me sick.

Listen up Romney, you ignorant RINO socialist!! The federal government has no business being involved in schools or health insurance!! Study your damn constitution. TARP was a huge RINO mistake!! Nationalizing and controlling private enterprise is national socialist fascism!! Leave our private enterprise system ALONE!! Keep your damned socialist MITTS out of our business!!

Still waiting for an answer from TA on this one: Descpicable Romney Haters Destroying Conservatism

Romney is poison...plain and simple.

Yup. They’re ringing in my ear.

I don’t know what bothers me more. The lack of conservative core values or the rudeness to our host.

If I disagreed with the basic core values of a forum and the host was deserving of respect I would just go away.

Instead they sling mud in his face by attacking those who share his values...without even the guts to directly confront him with their dissent.

Actually what I find ironic to the point of almost insanity is that Jim has built a Romney Truth File using many of the same documents and such that many of us "Romney Haters" refer to.

For having the temerity to use facts to show the folly of their support for Mitt we are called DUers, Democratic operatives, Saul Alinsky proteges, Obama supporters, hell everything short of a child of Satan.

Yet where are the same vicious and unsubstantiated attacks directed against our beloved host?

Gutless prigs...

"These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense," Romney said. "They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people." - Gov. Romney 2004

Not in a million years would I vote for that!

Actually I was called a son of oerdition during the primary season.

Now that had to be the lead candidate for “esoteric comment of the week”...

Thank you for posting.

I was just about to post this.

The first story out about this event.

A short couple of videos of Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush speaking. I wish those clips were a little longer.

The Anti Third Party Ping!! Let me know if you want on or off the list!

I did get an apology later though in all fairness.

No matter how many nasty posts, I will not change my mind about Mitt, baring future events.