Romney touts Massachusetts health plan

AP/AJC ^ | Aug 23 2012 | Nicholas Riccardi

[RaisingCain]

Romney said the only difference between his plan and Hillary’s is “Mine got passed.”

[freekitty]

Hmmm. Guess we have to take his word for it since the public never saw hers.

[DoughtyOne]

He can’t help himself. It’s who he is.

It was the same with McCain. He couldn’t help himself either, because that was who he was.

Romney will never see anything wrong with his vision of how things should run.

We have every right to criticize him for doing things that are wrong, but it’s the primary process that should be blamed here.

Now we’re stuck with this pig in a poke.

Should we really be blaming him for being who he is. Well yes, but more importantly we should be blaming our fellow Republicans and a process so flawed that this guy could even come close to being nominated as our champion.

We’ve got some work to do, and at this point Romney is water under the bridge.

Get ready, because this is something you’re going to be saying over and over and over again, for the next four or eight years.

“Sheesh. Not this crap again. Give it a rest, Romney.”

And by the way, dittos!!!!

[Diogenesis]

Mr. RomneyCARE is as evil as Obama by
installing DEATH CARE for all America.

[trebb]

I have absolutely no problem if Romney wants to defend Romneycare. Some people don’t seem to get the distinction between a sovereign state devising its own system and a federal government telling 310 million people how to live their lives. Now if somebody is from Mass. and they think it is bad policy, I would judge Romney on that, but I don’t buy the argument that Romneycare and Obamacare are the same thing.

Thanks for the injection of Constitutional sanity.

I also noticed folks missing the point when Romney made the statement on Gays in the Boy Scouts - He said he SUPPORTED the Boy Scouts right to choose how to run itself and BELIEVED that anyone should be able to be a Boy Scout. All the Romney-makes-me-go-apesh.. folks focused on the "believe" statment and totally missed the important statement that preceded it. I'd rather have someone who believed something I didn't like, but instead of pushing it down my throat, would accede to the rights and liberties laid out in the Constitution.

[Timber Rattler]

Many have given into the temptation to replace a black homosexualist, abortion loving, gun grabbing socialist for a white one. Not me.

That's exactly right, and even worse than that, they've been running around in mobs attacking those of us who won't drink the "ABO" hemlock and support Romney and the corrupt, decrepit GOP-E.

Call me a hard case, but Romney will NOT be getting my vote in November.

Period.

And that's based on his record of lying, double-dealing, double-talking, and generally doing anything and saying anything to get elected and push his statist agenda.

Romney enabled Obamacare and is proud of it. He can't contain himself.

[9YearLurker]

Unfortunately, Romney’s touting state-level Obamacare (AKA Romneycare) as part of his platform. This is from the healthcare page on his website:

“Ensure flexibility to help the uninsured, including public-private partnerships, exchanges, and subsidies
Ensure flexibility to help the chronically ill, including high-risk pools, reinsurance, and risk adjustment”

http://www.mittromney.com/issues/health-care

[katiedidit1]

Ain’t that the gospel truth. We know who Romney is but what is most important ..we know that he is not a conservative. I am fed up with the republican party. Romney is a liberal on social issues and he is responsible for introducing socialized medicine to the USA not just Mass but the USA.

[LibLieSlayer]

Any government involvement in heath care is a socialist incremental move to corrupt and absorb our way of life. We warned ALL of you that romney meant it when he said, “I will get rid of obamacare... and REPLACE IT”.

Now we know what he is going to replace it with. How do you pay for it mitt? Your State that implemented romneycare hasn't been able to pay for it... they just write checks for which no funds exist as payment.How is that any different from what obama has been doing mitt? Granted it is on a smaller scale but you are talking about taking romneycare Nationwide? How are you going to pay for it mitt?

LLS

[BurningOak]

What about the individual? While the Constitution does delegate some powers to the state, the gist of it is protecting the individual against the collective. Are we for Obamacare now just as long as it is legislated by states and not the fed?

[BurningOak]

Does anyone seriously think this man will make it his life mission to end Obamacare?

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[hitchwolf]

Some people don’t seem to get the distinction between a sovereign state devising its own system and a federal government telling 310 million people how to live their lives.

That's because there is no distinction.

FUMR

[radpolis]

You obviously need lessons in the US Constitution.

You obviously have NEVER read Article I of the US Constitution nor have you read the 9th and 10 Amendments.

If you don’t know the distinction between federal and state powers, I kindly suggest you go to the local community college and take a class in basic government and federalism.

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Some people don’t seem to get the distinction between a sovereign state devising its own system and a federal government telling 310 million people how to live their lives.

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That’s because there is no distinction.