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AmericanMade1776 (RomneyBOT, disingenuous for her Master):
”Ejonesie...there is no such thing as Romneycare..
that is something you idiots rant because you do not understand Massachusetts Politics. besides.. ..
Ejonesie.. you do not even live in Massachusetts.. ..
you are probably just a hillbilly in Arkansas.. am I right? ..

Ignoring the attacks of RomneyBOTs on FReepers which I cannot stand,
The issue is ROMNEYCARE. Does it exist? Yes it does.

ObamaCare’s Future, In Massachusetts Today ”Supporters of ObamaCare often argue that the new health care law is a lot like
Massachusetts’ reforms. But that program increasingly is running into problems with
costs and Bay Staters are becoming craftier about gaming the system.
Health insurers have filed suit against the state insurance commissioner:
Nearly a week after Massachusetts regulators disapproved 235 of 274 rate increases filed
by health insurers, citing the rising cost of care, a group of six companies is suing the
state for a move it says will “likely cause greater costs and confusion.”

“Many Massachusetts residents now have insurance coverage but can't find a physician.
…56 percent of Massachusetts physicians in internal medicine aren't accepting new patients.
…new patients fortunate enough to secure an appointment with a primary care doctor have an average waiting time of 44 days! .”

“Cahill bashes (MA) state -- and national -- health care reform law
State Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill, an independent candidate for governor, today offered
a wide-ranging and scathing criticism of the state’s universal health care law, saying it is
bankrupting Massachusetts and will do the same nationally, if a similar plan is passed in
Congress.
"If President Obama and the Democrats repeat the mistake of the health insurance reform
here in Massachusetts on a national level, they will threaten to wipe out the American
economy within four years,” Cahill said in a press conference in his office.
Echoing criticism leveled by Congressional Republicans in recent weeks, Cahill said, “It
is time for the president, the Democratic leadership, to go back to the drawing board and
come up with a new plan that does not threaten to bankrupt this country.”

“In his defense, Romney admitted to Fox that about half of the real costs of “extending
coverage to the uninsured” (aka forcing young, healthy people to buy expensive
insurance they don’t need) is covered by federal tax dollars. In other words, as expensive
as it is, without federal subsidies it would cost even more.
So when there’s a federal Obamacare plan, who do we taxpayers turn to for our
subsidies? China? The United Nations? Mr. Spock and the United Federation of Planets?”

“Mr. Romney's subsidized coverage is meanwhile doing what entitlements do: crowding
out private insurers, compounding the cost explosion, walking the state toward rationing.
So long as the former governor clings to these central points of his health plan, he's on
the wrong side of free-market policy and public opinion.

This isn't going away for Mr. Romney either, which is why he'd do better by writing off
his own plan as a mistake that Democrats have made worse, and replacing it with a
proposal that deregulates and reforms the private market to lower insurance costs
(thereby achieving greater coverage).”