Mass. healthcare undermines Romney's GOP support (Romneycare a mini version of Obamacare)

OneNewsNow ^ | 2009-11-25

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A new poll shows that former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney now has a less than 50 percent favorability rating among Republican voters.

Public Policy Polling has released its monthly 2012 survey, which finds that while 65 percent of Republicans have a favorable opinion of former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and 75 percent have a favorable opinion of former GOP vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin, only 48 percent view Mitt Romney favorably. Romney's popularity has fallen 19 points in the poll since May.

Tom Jensen of Public Policy Polling says the healthcare plan that Romney passed in Massachusetts when he was governor is now giving GOP voters pause about him.

"There's a feeling that what he did is not that [different] from what President Obama's trying to do -- and certainly, having undertaken any initiative similar to President Obama is not going to play well with the Republican base," Jenson notes. "There's also a feeling that people are already sort of starting to look toward 2012 and sort of really pick sides, and people who support Palin or Huckabee for president think that [those two are] the true conservative choices. I think they're sort of souring on Romney in general because they don't want him to be the presidential nominee."

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Romney is a turkey.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

IBTRB

(in before the romney bots...)

[Graybeard58]

First to say:

Romney sucks!

[Prokopton]

Romney is a turkey.

Huckabee is a Ham.

[onedoug]

No more RINOs. And no Huckabuck accomplices to murder.

[2ndDivisionVet]

"It's a feel-good story, this Myth Romney thing. Romney is an ascendant guy."

[formosa]

No to Romney!!! Absolutely no to ignorant acting Huckabee talking on the phone to God and telling us all we must not be drinking the same Jesus juice as him. To hear him speak I believe his glass is spiked.

[Venturer]

How many times do we have to tell the GOP we dont want Romney or that goofy looking guitar picker Huckabee either.

[rockinqsranch]

“I think they’re sort of souring on Romney in general because they don’t want him to be the presidential nominee.””

Get that message across to the RNC standing next to Romney’s wallet waving their “WE LOVE RINO’s” placards.

[RJL]

Tom Jensen of Public Policy Polling says the healthcare plan that Romney passed in Massachusetts when he was governor is now giving GOP voters pause about him.

RomneyCare is bad enough, even worse, he says it's what he's most proud of.

[kingu]

“I like [government] mandates. [Government] mandates work.” - Gov. Romney, in his own words, during a Republican presidential debate in response to Fred Thompson’s critique of Gov. Romney’s reliance on government programs.

It boggles me that anyone on this board can continue to support Romney after he spouted that on national television, especially if they wish to claim they are conservative.

[Jack Black]

So assuming, for the sake of discussion, that Palin chooses not to run in 2012 who do you all favor to lead the GOP?

Romney is a turkey, Huckabee is a ham. Rudy was hated here, for his cross-dressing at a costume party, and overemphasis on 9/11 and NYC. OK, fair enough all around.

Ron Paul was criticised mercilessly here, for his anti war views and failure to adhere to the tenents of some freepers.

So are we going to all support Fred Thompson again? Tim Pawlenty?

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Romney - hell no!

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“... 75 percent have a favorable opinion of former GOP vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin...”

Sarah Palin, the next ‘legitimate’ President of the United States.

[ajay_kumar]

Here it is Sarah Palin or stay home. No wonder GOP lost to a Kenyan with muslim name and heritage.

[Diogenesis]

Small businesses bridle at health insurance hikes (Romneycare strangles Mass. businesses)
Many told to expect double-digit jumps.
Bob Carroll, owner of a Billerica distributor of paint spraying equipment, recently got
some really bad news from Blue Cross-Blue Shield: His company’s health insurance rates are going up 47 percent in January.”

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“Republicans warn: Rationing medicine has already begun
But in a joint opinion piece called "Govt.-Run Health Care Isn't the Answer," published
in the online version of The Advocate, a leading homosexual magazine, Sen. Tom
Coburn, R-Okla., and GOProud's Christopher R. Barron warned the homosexual
community that the Ryan White CARE Act has already demonstrated how government-
run health care has introduced rationing and waiting lists and cost the lives of the people under its provisions.”

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“DEATH PANELS OPEN FOR BUSINESS IN MASSACHUSETTS”

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“President Obama's newly confirmed regulatory czar defended the
possibility of removing organs from terminally ill patients without their permission.”

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“You can’t reap these savings without limiting patients’ choices in some way," said Paul Levy, CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess.”

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“State plan may place limits on patients’ hospital options( Mass. RomneyCare )”

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"Romney Visits Nebraska, Talks Health Care [where he defends Romneycare] “

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"Paying the Health Tax in Massachusetts [Romneycare]
Massachusetts requires every resident to have health insurance, and this
year, without informing us directly, the state had changed the rules in a way that made
our bare-bones policy no longer acceptable. Unless we ponied up for a pricier policy we
neither need nor want—or enrolled in a government-sponsored insurance plan—we
would have to pay $1,000 each year to the state.
How did we become outlaws? “

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"National Health Preview - The Massachusetts debacle, coming soon to your neighborhood."
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."

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A Very Sick Health Plan; Bay State’s ‘Grand Experiment’ Fails [RomneyCare]
"Initiated on Mr. Romney’s gubernatorial watch in 2006, this “experiment” has fallen on hard times, and predictably so. “

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Health care in Massachusetts: a warning for America [Romney brings Mass. to its knees]
The Bay State's mandatory insurance law is raising costs, limiting access, and lowering care.
Three years ago, Massachusetts adopted a plan requiring all residents to purchase health
insurance, with state subsidies for lower-income residents. But rather than creating a
utopia of high-quality affordable healthcare, the result has been the exact opposite –
skyrocketing costs, worsened access, and lower quality care."

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"‘Severe’ doc shortage seen hiking wait time
“The shortage is getting more severe”"

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“Health costs to rise again.( RomneyCare )
The state’s major health insurers plan to raise premiums by about 10 percent next year,
prompting many employers to reduce benefits and shift additional costs to workers.”

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“Nation’s ill-advised to follow Mass. plan [Health plan a failure]
September 17, 2009 The canary is dead.
Massachusetts, the model for the ObamaCare universal insurance plan, is the canary in
the health care coal mine. Yesterday, its obit appeared on the front page of both The Wall
Street Journal and The Boston Globe-Democrat “

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"Bay State Insurance Premiums Highest in Country - Boston Globe August 22, 2009
Massachusetts has the most expensive family health insurance premiums in the country,
according to a new analysis that highlights the state’s challenge in trying to rein in medical costs
40 percent higher than in 2003. Over the same period, premiums nationwide rose an average of 33 percent..."

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"Massachusetts: the laboratory for ObamaCare“

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"Massachusetts' Obama-like reforms increase health costs, wait times [RomneyCare]
Premiums are growing 21 to 46 percent faster than the national average"

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"Mass. Pushes Rationing to Control Universal Healthcare Costs (RomneyCare)
A 10-member Massachusetts state healthcare advisory board unanimously recommended
that the state begin rationing healthcare to keep the state’s marquee universal health care program afloat financially.”

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"1,000 cancer patients 'refused treatment'"

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"Massachusetts Universal Healthcare System Breaking Down Already
ERs in Massachusetts have not seen a downturn in visits. On the contrary, it seems that ER visits are actually on the upswing in the Bay State. In fact, in 2007 they were higher than the national average by 20 percent...”

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"Hospital patients 'left in agony'"

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"National Health Preview - The Massachusetts debacle, coming soon to your neighborhood.
In Massachusetts's latest crisis,
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
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."

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A Very Sick Health Plan; Bay State’s ‘Grand Experiment’ Fails [RomneyCare]
… 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.“

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

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"Romney’s mistreatments a sick man, as Gov. Mitt Romney meets a medical marijuana patient"