Posted on 09/09/2012 7:28:36 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Edited on 09/09/2012 7:33:01 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who has called for scrapping President Barack Obama's 2010 U.S. healthcare law, said in remarks aired on Sunday that he likes key parts of "Obamacare" despite his party's loathing of it and wants to retain them.
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EXACTLY. Those who express shock or find some way to explain this other than that Romney is our Obama . . .well, I gotta bridge for you.
Know this as fact. Romney will KILL Conservatism.
Santorum 2016
Less evil.
I thank you, Ladies and Gentlemen.
Agree totally.
Just watched the local news and they were reporting it like the article here. Conservatives will go off the deep end if it’s left hanging like this.
Even before Obamacare, the health insurance plan that my company arranged with the insurance company for me still covered my children past age 21, if they were still my dependents.
The correct answer to that question is “as long as the parents are willing to continue to pay the extra cost of coverage for the children”.
And government’s job is to make sure regulations don’t preclude that coverage. Insurance companies will be glad to continue writing policies, and some parents will be glad to pay them.
Because parents know that if their 22-year-old doesn’t buy insurance, and gets sick, the parents are going to make sure they don’t die, whatever the cost. That’s what parents do for their children.
Why are you so concerned with dictating what the correct “conservative” age is to force children off the parent’s insurance coverage? It doesn’t seem conservative to me to interject your opinion into the private contracts of others.
Thanks for transcript. I read it and you’re right, he never said those things. Geez.
OK Mitt—What parts do you like and what parts do you want to chuck. I will be open minded enough to listen while you make your case.
Sheesh, if I act surprised will that win me “respect” from all the ABOs who've been hatin’ on conservatives around here...
I’m not Mitt. If I were, first thing I would do is quit the LDS.
Why should states dictate what is in a private contract between me and my health insurance company? Why can't I decide what coverage I want, and then deal with the companies to pay for it?
What I need government to do is to make sure the insurance companies don't cheat me out of my money, and are capable of fulfilling the contract they sign with me.
I call them the FR50.
Willing to help reelect the worst, most divisive, most destructive, pro-Marx, pro-death, pro-gay, anti-liberty, anti-free enterprise, anti-God, Anti-american, anti-everything we love and care for administration ever so they can finish us off once and for all.
It hurts they could be this stupid, and would be funny in another place and time......
:-)
We have no influence over the socialist democrats or the emperor obama should he be re-elected. None. Nada.
We do have the ability to revolt and influence the future of the GOP if we plan accordingly by reacting to our internal outrage over the direction that these corrupt collectivists have taken this country.
Wrong, very wrong. The government can never create outcome measures that will improve outcomes. Just like every other endeavor and industry, outcomes MUST be evaluated by the billions of decisions made by consumers every day in the free market. The patient, that is the consumer,
must be in a position to determine the price and value of healthcare, not government masterminds. The patient is put in charge when THEIR money (HSAs) is used to purchase healthcare, directly and through real catastrophic insurance. The government’s role in healthcare should be devoted to maintaining the ‘safety net’ instead of socializing the entire system, and in adherence with the Constitution, this should be done at the State level.
When the government creates incentives for what they regard as ‘good care’, inevitably, providers find ways to avoid risky and costly patients in order to optimize the government outcomes and rewards. Government outcome goals will only lead to ‘gaming’ of the system. This will result in providers competing for the ‘worried well’ and avoiding sick, non compliant patients.
The health care system can improve if we adhere to free market principles. Allowing IPAB boards and government masterminds to make medical descions is an affront to individual sovereignty and those that cherish liberty.
Nothing can be Romneycare except Romneycare.
Yes, it will be useful to press Mitt whether he wants to carve something out in Federal policy to accommodate more Romneycare’s. It has been years since Mitt voiced anything that would even remotely sound like this.
A “child” is an adult at age 21.
He/she should not need to feed at the parental trough past that age..
As a “conservative”, I pay my own medical bills..just like Rush and Levin.
There may come a day when I need major medical and for this, I have coverage. Otherwise, I choose to pay my own way and not be a burden to our already overloaded health care system. How ‘bout you, Charles?
My grown children have their own health insurance. They are all gainfully employed and have policies through their jobs.
Does that describe your “grown” children, Charles?
Your question is presumptive and leading on a couple of different levels. I'm not even going to try to tackle every angle I see in there.
I suppose I could answer, no, but with the qualifier that I am in the camp that believes that Romney only stands a couple of paces to Obama's right, and that he's a big government statist who will do nothing to roll back the current elitist agenda that's destroying this country.
A cursory look at his record as Governor of Massachusetts will better inform a person of what to expect from him as president, than anything else I can think of. He's never stood for anything resembling a conservative ideal in his life (campaign rhetoric, notwithstanding), and a solid case can be made that he is, in fact, a stealth liberal with an R velcroed to his sleeve.
The problem with a Romney presidency is that a Republican dominated Congress is going to try to "work with" him, instead of opposing him on his inevitable left-of-center agenda. All of this poppycock about 'holding his feet to the fire' is just that. He's already doing the etch-a-sketch, and no one's stopping him. Once he's in office - good luck. He'll do whatever he and his globalist buddies want, which won't bear any substantial difference to what Obama and his Socialist buddies have been doing for the last four years.
If you're one of those who's been promising that he's gonna fix Obama's mess, then you're one of those who's gonna get their heart broken. Especially if you've sold your conservative principles out, to support him.
On November 7th, I think the good news will be that Obama has lost, but the bad news will be that Romney has won.
I agree with you. I don’t want my state to mandate healthcare purchasing. Romney needs to use his head and keep the Federal government out of this. That’s all he needs to do as a Federal official.
But you know that stupid states like VT, MA, CA still retain the right under the Constitution to enact these type of stupid policies w/o Federal interference.
(((crickets)))
As long as the schools are Marxist indoctrination centers , and the media is controlled by the left , things will inexorably get worse . The country is more or less gone now , and you have all the politcos and their cronies grabbing what is left . Nearly 50% ov the voting public are idiots , and that # will continue to grow . Add in the illegals , etc...and you have a USA in name only . Heading for banana republic territory IMO .
Oh Chunga, your tagline is so clever and witty,. Are you describing yourself by chance?
nonsense, if NOBODY is compelled to buy it who cares? let the free market decide if it is a viable product.
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