Posted on 08/22/2007 12:51:25 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
Skips some facts on healthcare law
On the presidential campaign trail, Mitt Romney points to healthcare reform as his major achievement as Massachusetts governor, presenting the plan as an example of how he used conservative principles to provide affordable health insurance for all state residents without a government takeover.
But he does not mention aspects of the plan that may hold less appeal for his Republican audiences. For example, he decries "socialized medicine" and says the Massachusetts plan is "all a private initiative, a private-based, market-based healthcare" -- omitting the fact that the state and federal governments subsidize much of the overall cost and that a public board negotiated the benefits and prices that private insurers now offer.
He wows audiences by telling them that premiums for individuals dropped from $350 a month to $175 a month, without clarifying that those figures are for the lowest-cost plan available for 37-year-olds and without mentioning that for many people, especially the elderly, premiums can be several hundred dollars more.
And he sometimes downplays the role that Democrats on Beacon Hill had in putting together the final plan.
The Massachusetts healthcare law is exceedingly complicated, and it would be difficult for Romney to explain all the nuances in a town hall-style meeting, or in TV or radio advertisements...[click link below to read further glosses of the Romney record...]
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
You mean like the Crawford paper that backed Kerry in 2004? Gotta love the best sources and historical information.
Quit making excuses for The Glob.
You mean like the Crawford paper that backed Kerry in 2004? Gotta love the best sources and historical information.
Quit making excuses for The Glob.
T/F: Mitt Romney’s plan expanded the number of people insured under private healthcare plans.
“Shocking!
Blogger Harry Forbes notes a hilarious passage in a Boston Globe piece about Mitt Romney:
But some of Romney’s critics and political foes—all strong supporters of the state’s healthcare law—say he is resorting to tricks used by candidates trying to put the best spin on their records: accentuating the positive, deleting difficult details, and taking too much credit.
Maybe Romney should take a page from Karl Rove and accentuate the negative instead. That’s called “reverse psychology” and it’s even more sneaky and underhanded!”
http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110010506
It isn't exactly the same, but rather a distinction without a difference.
To: TChris
The Mitt-worshipers refuse to read anything that might be critical of him.
They simply ignore the facts and attack the messenger.
That's why in this whole thread no Mitt-worshiper has even attempted to refute a single fact from the article.
Attack the messenger, Attack the messenger, Attack the messenger!
To: TChris
The Mitt-worshipers cant stand the heat.
There can be no criticism of their annointed one.
They even refuse to read anything that might be critical of him.
They simply ignore the facts and attack the messenger.
Is this the first presidential campaign you've followed?
Oh, a real zinger there, JohnnyZ. No it isn't the first Presidential campaign I followed, in fact I followed the last which featured a liberal Massachussetts politician who, unlike Romney, was not the subject of a hit-piece-a-day from the Globe.
Care to explain why Kerry got Globe puff-pieces, and Romney gets hit pieces?
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How is that different to what was in place prior to Romney’s health care reforms?
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