"The answer to the question Wasnt Romneycare exactly the same thing as Obamacare? is, to quote Nancy Pelosi, Are you serious? The Massachusetts law contained an individual mandate (which states, unlike the federal government, are allowed to impose). But it did not consist of 2,700 pages of new regulations; 159 new boards and commissions; more than $500 billion in new taxes (and counting); the Independent Payment Advisory Board, a rationing board whose decisions are unreviewable by the courts and practically untouchable by Congress itself; restrictions on religious liberty; Medicare cuts; affirmative-action mandates for medical and dental schools; huge new authority over one-seventh of the U.S. economy for the secretary of health and human services, and open-ended regulations of the way doctors and others perform their jobs."Mona omits the 5000 additional IRS agents and their new bloated enforcement bureaucracy that are also NOT in Romneycare.