Mitt Romney on Health Care Overhaul (Your World with Neil Cavuto)

want to see some FAIR and DECENT posting

About a liberal? Why?

We don’t need spam, and we certainly don’t need garbage.

Then PLEASE stop posting about Romney. HE IS ANATHEMA to conservatives.

Take your trash to DU.

That’s not a lion. That’s a lioness. But I am guessing you know more about being a lyiness than a lyin.

Post 59

I think if anything you posted on this thread would “get my Irish up”, this would be it. I know nothing of you, except for the opinion I have formed from your posts, but I see none of the attributes of this man in you. Your use of this material illustrates how self serving you are.

Pres. Reagan had great strength and character as well as remarkable compassion (the one I remember most was his getting on his knees so a blind child could feel his face, no camera, staffer happened to observe it).

I see only callousness and anger in your posts and your name calling and false accusations as well as targeting a deluge of, what I consider, spam at people you target shows none of his character... you should be ashamed.

post 48

“If someone disagrees with you, are they simply “throwing feces””

Nope, but I do view posts that make false accusations, and engage in ridicule and insult similar to feces throwing.

“Frankly, I think that characterization is pretty rude.”

I feel the same about the key words posted for most of the Romney threads. What do you think of those.

“Of course you “started it”. You posted an adversarial post to someone on this thread. “

A review of the thread would reveal otherwise, perhaps you aren’t capable of that.

“My side is the side of honesty about a politician who appears to be campaigning for the presidency of this country. I consider that to be of vital importance.”

Actually your side’s honesty seems, at times, like the ethics of Nancy Pelosi, it is subjective.

“”Acorn”? Now I am disappointed.”

I have no doubt that a group that engages in ridicule, insult and intimidation here would just as readily do it in a physical form, maybe even resort to violence. That was the basic of my ACORN comment. Sorry is you find this uncomfortable.

Post 63

You post is so ignorant I have to respond to it.

You either are’t capable of understanding it or you diliberately twisted it to make your silly little point. Let me explain it to you.

1. The contributors are like share holders, they supply the capital They all contribute to this site because they want to engage in discussions (to learn, share ideas, and perhaps sharper their skills), promote their individual views as well as candidates that share their views.

If enough are dissatisfied with this site it will cease to exist or Jim Robinson will have to find alternative funding. That’s just the way things work.

2. The other part of the success of this site is the reputation or prestige that it has earned. Jim Robinson is a vital part of this but it goes far beyond him. It is because, like I posted, of the knowledge and experiences of hundreds of posters.

These posts are what draws people to this site and prompts talk show hosts and blogges to come come here for material. They don’t come here for trite posts full of rancor and duberous accuracy, continue in this direction and the site will loose it’s reputation and it’s effective.

Goodnight all, will check back the first of the week, maybe even Sunday evening.

It was an interesting discussion, perhaps we can continue it on a fresh thread, maybe a different subject. I have many interests and opinions.

They don’t come here for trite posts full of rancor and duberous accuracy, continue in this direction and the site will loose it’s reputation and it’s effective.

Yeah!

I've noticed that those INACCURATE links to stuff never seem to get rebutted with the TRUTH; but with CLAIMS that they are untruthful.

I wonder why?

You either are’t capable of understanding it or you diliberately twisted it to make your silly little point.

Only TWO choices?

Goodnight all, will check back the first of the week, maybe even Sunday evening.

DANG!

I got here too late to keep you from running off!

I want you to comment on the IGNORANCE of post #64.

It was an interesting discussion, perhaps we can continue it on a fresh thread, maybe a different subject.

Why?

What's wrong with THIS one?

You are truly a malignant RomneyBOT.

Anyone who DARES post about Romney’s behavior
“should be ashamed”, so you, a malignant RomneyBOT, claim.

Any who posts a URL to another thread is “throwing feces”,
so you, the malignant RomneyBOT claims.

BS. You should be ashamed for not having a ‘warning label’,
like your Master whom who you serve, and by being
so disingenuous and distruptive.

President Reagan would have THROWN Romney out for his
Marxism, lying, proObama treachery, etc.

"A political party cannot be all things to all people.
It must represent certain fundamental beliefs
which must not be compromised to political expediency
or simply to swell its numbers."
-- President Ronald Reagan

"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party
over to the traitors in the battle just ended.
We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged
to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support.
Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates
wouldn’t make any sense at all.""
-- President Ronald Reagan

Election2008-spoiler Mitt Romney chortles,
as he inflicts his version of socialized medicine (HillaryCARE=ROmneyCARE)
as the Dictator he was, upon the Massachusetts citizenss.

"Massachusetts Universal Healthcare System Breaking Down Already
When Governor Mitt Romney instituted a universal healthcare plan for Massachusetts in 2006 he proclaimed it a conservative idea.
But has it worked? Has it been successful?
For a time, many thought it might but cracks in the system are already being seen.
These cracks are instructive as a lesson on how Obamacare will crash and burn just like Romneycare is now in the process of doing.

One of the early claims that helped push Romneycare through to law was the insistence by its supporters that Emergency Room visits would fall as more and more citizens became covered under healthcare insurance.
Since ER care is far more expensive than a doctor's care, it was thought that more people with insurance would ease the overcrowding of ERs as well as lower the overall costs of healthcare.
However, a flaw in this logic has been seen throughout the state. As more people became insured, more people demanded the care of doctors. These doctors became overloaded with patients and waiting lists for doctors got longer and longer.
As a result, ERs in Massachusetts have not seen a downturn in visits. On the contrary, it seems that ER visits are actually on the upswing in the Bay State. In fact, in 2007 they were higher than the national average by 20 percent...

"National Health Preview - The Massachusetts debacle, coming soon to your neighborhood."
"Three years ago, the former Massachusetts Governor had the inadvertent good sense to create the "universal" health-care program that the White House and Congress now want to inflict on the entire country.
It is proving to be instructive, as Mr. Romney's foresight previews what President Obama, Max Baucus, Ted Kennedy and Pete Stark are cooking up for everyone else.
In Massachusetts's latest crisis, Governor Deval Patrick and his Democratic colleagues are starting to move down the path that government health plans always follow when spending collides with reality -- i.e., price controls.
As costs continue to rise, the inevitable results are coverage restrictions and waiting periods. It was only a matter of time.

They're trying to manage the huge costs of the subsidized middle-class insurance program that is gradually swallowing the state budget.
The program provides low- or no-cost coverage to about 165,000 residents, or three-fifths of the newly insured, and is budgeted at $880 million for 2010, a 7.3% single-year increase that is likely to be optimistic.
The state's overall costs on health programs have increased by 42% (!) since 2006.

What really whipped along RomneyCare were claims that health care would be less expensive if everyone were covered.
But reducing costs while increasing access are irreconcilable issues.
Mr. Romney should have known better before signing on to this not-so-grand experiment, especially since the state's "free market" reforms that he boasts about have proven to be irrelevant when not fictional.
Only 21,000 people have used the "connector" that was supposed to link individuals to private insurers."

A Very Sick Health Plan; Bay State’s ‘Grand Experiment’ Fails [RomneyCare]
"The Daily News Record, Harrisonburg, Va. - 2009-03-31 "
"For folks increasingly leery of President Obama’s plan to radically overhaul America’s health-care system,
or 17 percent of the nation’s economy, all this could hardly have come at a better time —
that is, fiscal troubles aplenty within Repubican Mitt Romney’s brainchild, Massachusetts’ “grand experiment” in “universal” health care."

"Initiated on Mr. Romney’s gubernatorial watch in 2006, this “experiment” has fallen on hard times, and predictably so.
Even though the Bay State commenced its program with a far smaller percentage of uninsured residents than exists nationwide,
“RomneyCare” is threatening to bankrupt the state. Budgeted for Fiscal Year 2010 at $880 million,
or 7.3 percent more than a year ago, this plan, aimed at providing low- or no-cost health coverage to roughly 165,000 residents,
has caused Massachusetts’ overall expenditures on all health-related programs to jump an astounding 42 percent since 2006.

So what does Mr. Romney’s successor, Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick, propose as a remedy for these skyrocketing costs?
Well, whaddya think? The standard litany of prescriptions (no pun intended) — price controls and spending caps, for a start, and then, again predictably, waiting periods and limitations on coverage.
As in Europe and Canada, so too in Massachusetts. And, we feel certain, everyone from Mr. Romney to Mr. Patrick said, “It would never happen here.”
But then, such things are inevitable when best-laid plans, with all their monstrous costs, run smack-dab into fiscal reality.

"Hospital patients 'left in agony'"
"Patients were allegedly left screaming in pain and drinking from flower vases on a nightmare hospital ward.
Between 400 and 1,200 more people died than would have been expected at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust over three years, a damning Healthcare Commission report said.
The watchdog's investigation found inadequately trained staff who were too few in number, junior doctors left alone in charge at night and patients left without food, drink or medication as their operations were repeatedly cancelled.
Patients were left in pain or forced to sit in soiled bedding for hours at a time and were not given their regular medication, the Commission heard.
Receptionists with no medical training were expected to assess patients coming in to A&E, some of whom needed urgent care.
Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director of the NHS, said there had been a "gross and terrible breach" of patients' trust and a "complete failure of leadership".
The Healthcare Commission's chairman Sir Ian Kennedy said the investigation followed concerns about a higher than normal death rate at the Trust, which senior managers could not explain.
He said: "The resulting report is a shocking story. Our report tells a story of appalling standards of care and chaotic systems for looking after patients. These are words I have not previously used in any report.
"There were inadequacies in almost every stage of caring for patients. There was no doubt that patients will have suffered and some of them will have died as a result."
Julie Bailey, 47, was so concerned about the care being given to her 86-year-old mother Bella at Stafford Hospital that she and her relatives slept in a chair at her bedside for eight weeks.
She said: "We saw patients drinking out of..."

Thousands of patients with terminal cancer were dealt a blow last night after a decision was made to deny them life prolonging drugs.
The Government's rationing body said two drugs for advanced breast cancer and a rare form of stomach cancer were too expensive for the NHS.
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is expected to confirm guidance in the next few weeks that will effectively ban their use.
The move comes despite a pledge by Nice to be more flexible in giving life-extending drugs
to terminally-ill cancer patients after a public outcry last year over 'death sentence' decisions."

"Patients Forced To Wait Hours In Ambulances Parked Outside A&E Departments
"An investigation by The Sunday Telegraph has found that thousands of 999 patients are being left to wait in ambulances in car parks and holding bays, or in hospital corridors – in some cases for more than five hours – before they can even join the queue for urgent treatment.

Experts warn that hospitals are deliberately delaying when they accept patients – or are diverting them to different sites –
in order to meet Government targets to treat people within fours hours of admitting them."

"Access-to-care problems are resurfacing in Mass.
AMA News - Massachusetts' Commonwealth Connector health reforms have reduced the state's uninsured population to less than 3% of residents, the lowest among all states.
But a recent survey found an uptick last fall in adults reporting difficulty accessing certain types of care."

"Massachusetts: 26% Consider State’s Health Care Reform a Success (37% a failure)
Rasmussen Reports June 29, 2009
Twenty-six percent (26%) of Massachusetts voters say their state’s health care reform effort has been a success.
A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state finds that 37% say the reform effort has been a failure, while another 37% are not sure.
Only 10% of Bay State voters say the quality of health care has gotten better as a result of the reform plan while 29% say it has gotten worse.
Most (53%) say the quality of care has not changed. The Massachusetts Health Care Reform was enacted in 2006 by Republican Governor Mitt Romney and a Democratic state legislature. "

"Massachusetts Health Care: A Model Not to Copy
In fact, the Massachusetts plan has been a massive failure and is a model for what not to do.
It has increased costs. It has wasted taxpayer dollars. It has limited patients' choice.
It has hurt small business. It has failed to achieve its goal of universal coverage. Most objectionable, it has created shortages and waiting lists.
Promoters predicted that the Massachusetts plan would lower health-care costs, but -- so far -- costs are moving in the opposite direction.
State government spending on health-care programs in Massachusetts has increased by 42 percent since the plan was adopted in 2006 and currently is 33 percent above the national average.

Advocates promised that the Massachusetts plan would make health insurance more affordable, but according to a Cato study, insurance premiums have been increasing at nearly double the national average: 7.4 percent in 2007, 8 percent to 12 percent in 2008, and an expected 9 percent increase this year.
Health insurance in Massachusetts costs an average of $16,897 for a family of four, compared to a national average of $12,700.
The Massachusetts plan incorporates a system of middle-class subsidies called Commonwealth Care to help pay for insurance for families with incomes up to 300 percent of poverty level ($66,150 for a family of four) and also expanded eligibility for Medicaid.

The Massachusetts Connector, a new bureaucracy that was supposed to increase patient choice, has become an overbearing regulatory arm of government that has decreased competition by prescribing benefits insurance must offer. The Connector is evidently unpopular with patients, since only 18,000 people have used the Connector to buy insurance during the past three years.
The Connector has imposed regulations that add to the cost of insurance and limit consumer choice, such as requiring prescription-drug coverage and preventive-care services, restricting high-deductible policies and putting limits on annual or per-sickness policies. Complying with the Connector's rules means changing from your current insurance that you like.

The costs to the taxpayers are rising, too, and one tax increase has not satisfied the appetite of the hungry plan. The prospect of huge deficits has elicited discussion of cuts in reimbursements to providers and the imposition of a "global budget," which is a euphemism for rationing.
Even though Massachusetts has more doctors per capita than any other state, the Boston Globe reports that waiting periods to see physicians have grown. The average wait is now 63 days to see a family doctor, 50 days to see a specialist and the second trimester of pregnancy to see an obstetrician-gynecologist.

If you want to see the busiest, most popular physicians, the wait can be up to a year.

The longer waits are the result of thousands of newly insured residents coming into the health-care system. Massachusetts has reduced the number of uninsured, but there are no reliable figures on how many are still uninsured since some statistics are based on telephone surveys that don't reach significant groups of people who lack landline telephones (such as young people and illegal aliens). Cato estimates that 200,000 are still uninsured.
If the number of uninsured had been measurably reduced, that should be reflected in the use of hospitals' emergency care facilities for uncompensated care. But hospitals don't confirm this effect. Small business is hurting, too. The Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council ranks Massachusetts last of all the 50 states for business-friendly health-care policies.
A June 21 front-page article in The New York Times reported that one cancer unit in a Philadelphia Veterans Administration hospital bungled 92 of 116 prostate cancer treatments over six years (requiring these patients to undergo a second operation) before the errors were discovered. The real problem is that the government cannot run health care safely (or cheaper).
Canada is another model of what not to do. It's fortunate that Canada is so close to the United States because Canadians rely on American medicine for serious surgery.
De facto rationing in Canada is practiced by waiting lists rather than by using its realistic name. The Globe and Mail in Toronto reports that the physician shortage is so acute that some towns hold lotteries to win a ticket granting access to the local doctor and that Ontario sent 160 patients to New York and Michigan for emergency neurosurgery between 2006 and 2008.
Although President Obama told the American Medical Association that single-payer (government-controlled) health care works "pretty well" in some other countries, no government has ever been able to run a health-care system as well as private enterprise.
Less regulation of health care, not more government control, is the way to healthier Americans and lower costs.

Peter Horry [Saturday, March 06, 2010; defending Mr. Mitt RomneyCARE
and Team Romney's dirty tricks against the GOP]:
"... Let me explain it to you. ... If enough are dissatisfied with this site
it will cease to exist or Jim Robinson will have to find alternative funding.
... Jim Robinson is a vital part of this but it goes far beyond him."

What unctuous arrogance, and petulant putative "power".
There must be a word to describe you, Mr. Horry, and your type.
Perhaps another FReeper has it on her/his tongue.

It’s wishful thinking, imho.

Re: Post #86

Mr. Horry seems to be a part of, or clearly in touch with, the same group of banned anti-FReeper trolls that have threatened this website if it doesn’t become a cheerleading forum for Slick Willard. His perpetual insults of respected FReepers (while wrapped in the rhetoric of a concern troll !) is also testament to that. I think Mr. Horry needs to be shown the door.

Now now, let not ban Petey Boy.

He's amusing and his “I'm not a Romneybot” meme is adorable, like when my 2 year old with crumbs and chocolate on his face sheepishly says “no” when I ask him if he just ate a cookie from the jar...

Don’t bother supporting Romney here... it ain’t gonna fly... and for good reason... he’s terrible for conservatives.

So, from what I’ve seen of other posters who persist in supporting Romney or ideas that come from Romney, quoting him or referring to him — they are just asking for trouble.

For your own good, if you like Free Republic (for yourself) just respect the fact that nothing having to do with Romney is ever “going to fly” here...

Now that is good advice... unless you’re just itching for a zot or something like that... :-)

If it serves some purpose to have these Romney articles posted it is .... to remind us that we have work to do to stop Romney2012 before it gets off the launch pad.

What is the plan for New Hampshire Jan’12 ... 22 months away?
What is the plan for Ames, IA straw poll Aug’11 ... 17 months away?

Bookmarking your links. We are gonna need them for future reference.