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Ok......and?

Just more beating of that long dead horse.

Here's a good article about RomneyCare
Click Here from FactCheck.org

99.1% of all children covered with insurance in MA.

I don't like the idea of any kind of mandate though. Insurance is supposed to be a "benefit" for working for a company, not an entitlement.

Obamacare has the individual mandate which is literally satanic IMO. You can't escape it. In Romneycare the mandate is partially on businesses and not on the individual.

I know people from MA that say that Romneycare is a really good thing and they like it. And I believe the intentions Romney had were honorable.

But.... I'm not comfortable with the door Romneycare opens up for every nitwit liberal to shove entitlements on us. Saddling us with debt that are perpetual and can never be paid off, they only continue to grow. That's the blue print for economic collapse.

I think Obamacare is something that needs to be eliminated, if not completely, at least the individual mandate. We keep hearing that we need to provide for the uninsured. So why do we all have to suffer? Congress should have passed a bill only for them.

Remember, Obamacare is Insurance - not better healthcare. People (the uninformed) keep thinking (driven by the media) that this will help our health. No it will not. It provides payments (insurance) for preventive care, etc.

What Romney and the Democrats did in MA might be good for MA and some of the results you mention seem to prove that. But Obamacare is for everyone and as we all know, you can never ever make something fit for everyone.

Did you see the article on what the EPA is doing with the drones to spy on ranchers? Or the one about the EPA killing the coal industry?

“The Massachusetts plan might not have achieved universal coverage, but it has cost taxpayers a great deal of money. Originally, the plan was projected to cost $1.8 billion this year. Now it is expected to exceed those estimates by $150 million. Over the next 10 years, projections suggest that Romney- Care will cost about $2 billion more than was budgeted. And the cost to Massachusetts taxpayers could be even higher because new federal rules could deprive the state of $100 million per year in Medicaid money that the state planned to use to help finance the program.”

Intentions mean squat.
Yea, I can see how MA is benefiting from this massive government intrusion.

Another quote:
The subsidies may have increased the number of Massachusetts citizens with insurance, but as many as 400,000 Massachusetts residents by some estimates have failed to buy the required insurance. That includes the overwhelming majority of those with incomes too high to qualify for state subsidies. Fewer than 30,000 unsubsidized residents have signed up as a result of the mandate. And that is on top of the 60,000 of the state’s uninsured who were exempted from the mandate because buying insurance would be too much of a financial burden.

http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/v30n1/cpr30n1-1.html

I know people from MA that say that Romneycare is a really good thing and they like it. And I believe the intentions Romney had were honorable.

Yeah right.

Were his intentions honorable when he also did the following?

1. Implemented an "Assault" Weapons Ban AFTER the federal AWB had been allowed to expire.
2. Implemented Socialized Medicine WITH a $50 Abortion
3. Wholeheartedly supported Abortion.
4. Nominated 27 out of 36 extreme, left-wing, Progressive Democrats to judgeships
5. Supported the Brady Bill
6. Supported Amnesty for Illegal Aliens, i.e. McCain-Kennedy
7. Supported Global Warming
8. Worked for the creation of a Carbon Cap-and-Trade system at the state level in Massachusetts
9. Implemented Gay Marriage
10. Supported Gay Adoption and forced it at the state level in Massachusetts.
11. Raised taxes and fees to the tune of $700 million.
12. Stated that he was not interested in going back to the policies of Ronald Reagan.
13. Came out against the Bush tax cuts.