The Failure of RomneyCare

WSJ ^ | GRACE-MARIE TURNER

[MaxCUA]

Former Massachusetts governor and likely 2012 presidential aspirant Mitt Romney has been on the wrong side of the defining political battle of our time.

Mr. Romney claimed earlier this month on "Fox News Sunday" that the Massachusetts health reform plan he signed into law in 2006 is "the ultimate conservative plan." But there are many similarities between it and the ObamaCare loathed by conservative voters.

Both have an individual mandate requiring most residents to have health insurance or pay a penalty. Most businesses are required to participate or pay a fine. Both rely on government-designed purchasing exchanges that also provide a platform to control private health insurance. Many of the uninsured are covered through Medicaid expansion and others receive subsidies for highly-prescriptive policies. And the apparatus requires a plethora of new government boards and agencies.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Does his Lordship know he screwed up royally?

[FrankR]

But...but...but....

[The Pack Knight]

It will be amusing to see him try to explain this away during the debates next year.

[GOP_Lady]

The article is from 03-16-10.

[ansel12]

Poor Mitt.

[Diogenesis]

Perennial Backstabber Romney is the anti-Reagan.

"One of the traditional methods of imposing statism
or socialism on people has been by way of medicine..."
President Ronald Reagan

Death Panels imposed by Mitt Romney (ObamaCARE=RomneyCARE).

[donhunt]

Romney can go fry his ass too.

[The Pack Knight]

Huh, so it is. I thought it seemed familiar.

[Diogenesis]

Hey, don't change the subject of the thread.
The evil of RomneyCARE (=ObamaCARE) is always relevant.

By the way, how much money did BAIN and Romney make
off of the sacred ground beneath the Ground Zero Mosque????
Do they own any interest in the second building too?
through another shell corporation?

"(The GroundZero Mosque) cleared its final hurdle ….
developers plan to build the $100 million center which will include a mosque.
Since its incipient stages in July 2009, when a Muslim-run real-estate development
company purchased the damaged, vacant building and land where the new center
will be built, the project has sparked controversy and debate.
.... the tattered building that was bought by the Muslim real estate company had
been owned by a subsidiary of Bain Capital, a company Romney founded in 1984."

[Secret Agent Man]

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