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Romney: Without Romneycare there’d be no ObamaCare, and lots of people would be without insurance
Canada Free Press ^ | 10/26/15 | Robert Laurie

Posted on 10/26/2015 6:07:35 PM PDT by Sean_Anthony

Super. Thanks, Mitt.

From the very beginning, Mitt Romney’s campaign was hit with two main lines of attack. The first was that he was a flip-flopper who’d tried to have it both ways on virtually every issue. The second was that he created RomneyCare - the blueprint for ObamaCare - and seemed pretty pleased with himself for doing so. Sane people everywhere asked “Why would you run a candidate like Romney, who can’t mount a successful attack against ObamaCare, when it’s your number one campaign issue.”

Of course, we all know how things turned out.

Romney continued to call for the repeal of the ACA, but failed - badly - to offer any legitimate reason why the healthcare system he’d supported in Massachusetts was such a bad thing for the rest of the country. He took a stab at saying it was a question of constitutionality, arguing that what a state could do was different than what the federal government could do. That may be correct, but it didn’t explain the discrepancy in his opinions about the systems in question.


TOPICS: Government; Health/Medicine; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: mittromney; obamacare; romneyagenda; romneycare; romneyvsamerica; romneyvsmedicine
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1 posted on 10/26/2015 6:07:36 PM PDT by Sean_Anthony
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To: Sean_Anthony

Doubling down on stupid!!!


2 posted on 10/26/2015 6:09:49 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Beware the Louisiana Weasel - GOPe Plan C or make that D)
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To: Sean_Anthony

Romney is coming more and more out of the closet.


3 posted on 10/26/2015 6:09:57 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Sean_Anthony

BTW, what is so freaking sacred about insurance???

Insurance is where they bet for you and you bet against you. What kind of a deal is that? They pay actuators a lot of money so that you’re more likely to pay them more than they ever pay you.

We don’t have insurance. Don’t miss it a bit.


4 posted on 10/26/2015 6:13:25 PM PDT by Jim W N
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To: Sean_Anthony

You forgot to add the “satire” descriptor.

/s


5 posted on 10/26/2015 6:14:09 PM PDT by newfreep (TRUMP/Cruz 2016 - "Evil succeeds when good men do nothing" - Edmund Burke)
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To: Sean_Anthony

Without Romneycare people would not be forced to by more than $4,000 a year for a $6,000 deductible insurance policy or pay thousands in fines. Thanks Mitt! Go f@#% yourself.


6 posted on 10/26/2015 6:18:03 PM PDT by forgotten man
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To: Sean_Anthony
When he was "severely conservative," he may have been lying being a "conservative" part but the truth of what he thought of conservatives slipped out in the "severely" part.
  severe:
     1. (of something bad or undesirable) very great; intense.
     2. strict or harsh.

7 posted on 10/26/2015 6:18:45 PM PDT by drpix
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To: Sean_Anthony

Correction: When he SAID HE was...


8 posted on 10/26/2015 6:19:43 PM PDT by drpix
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To: Sean_Anthony

There are other trails Romney blazed in Massachusetts besides socialized medicine.

Homosexual “marriage.”

Homosexualized public schools.

Homosexualized state government.

Gun bans.

100% taxpayer-funded abortions.

In fact, there are few politicians who have done more for the radical Left’s agenda than Willard Mitt Romney.


9 posted on 10/26/2015 6:25:36 PM PDT by EternalVigilance ( I care about Jeb Bush's campaign exactly as much as he cared about Terri Schiavo's thirst.)
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To: Jim 0216

I work in a hospital and currently I’m working with a patient trying to help her in some way,
She thought like you, she didn’t need insurance, it’s a total waste of money. She currently has a bill of $200,000 and counting.


10 posted on 10/26/2015 6:32:08 PM PDT by chae (The Lannisters send their regards--Game of Thrones)
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To: EternalVigilance

Willard the Rat Romney grubered America and imposed
socialized medicine, imposed gay marriage,
attacked Gov.Palin and imposed Obama and his treason.
What is left? Polygamy and possibly marriage to animals.


11 posted on 10/26/2015 6:33:46 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Sean_Anthony

Run, Mitt, run! (/S)


12 posted on 10/26/2015 6:38:11 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Jim 0216
We don’t have insurance. Don’t miss it a bit.

For a group of say 100 people it's not supposed to matter whether they have insurance or not. On average either option costs about the same in the end. The original purpose of insurance was just to smooth out the costs into even monthly payments for budgeting purposes. But libtard politicians have hijacked insurance as another flank in the wealth redistribution war, minus a 50% cut for administration fees of course.

13 posted on 10/26/2015 6:40:17 PM PDT by Reeses (A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
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To: Sean_Anthony

All I can say is “You arrogant self important little prick!”, all the people who lost their health plans and watched their deductibles and premiums skyrocket while simultaneously seeing the quality of their care reduced give you a hearty F.U.!


14 posted on 10/26/2015 6:48:10 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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What is overlooked in soooo many of these Romney-Obama-Care discussions is the Tenth Amendment.

Romney Care is permitted, though not desired, while Obama care is a violation (an ignored violation).

15 posted on 10/26/2015 6:52:53 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (This tagline lists all of Hilary's accomplishments............................)
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To: Sean_Anthony

Channeling Slow Joe is not considered soaring with eagles Romney!!!!


16 posted on 10/26/2015 6:53:26 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Irony - MSM and professors pimp for the communists but are historically the first killed by them!)
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To: Sean_Anthony

Rush went off on Romney and the GOPe today and it was classic. Rush at his best.


17 posted on 10/26/2015 7:08:47 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: chae

...She thought like you, she didn’t need insurance, it’s a total waste of money. She currently has a bill of $200,000 and counting....

Even if she had Obamacare “insurance” she probably couldn’t come up the $6,000+ deductible to cover initial medical costs. And, things went from bad to intolerable.

If you want to help her out, suggest bankruptcy. That’s what the bankruptcy courts are there for.


18 posted on 10/26/2015 7:27:34 PM PDT by Sasparilla
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Ya know, we tried & tried & tried...from 07—>12 to warn people about Romney the socialized healthcare candidate; Romney the pro-abort; and Romney the “god”...and sheeple went ahead & voted for him, anyway...thereby perhaps doing permanent damage to the Republican Party...voting for someone to the left of Jack Kennedy.


19 posted on 10/26/2015 7:41:10 PM PDT by Colofornian
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Mitt. You had your chance and blew it. Why don’t you shut up and spend more time with your family.


20 posted on 10/26/2015 7:56:33 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Thank you mom for not being "pro-choice." Amen.)
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