Posted on 10/20/2011 3:27:15 AM PDT by woofie
After seven debates and many more missed opportunities, the other GOP candidates finally pressed Mitt Romney on his Massachusetts health-care record in a serious way on Tuesday night. Let's extend the scrutiny and try to sort the substance from the merely polemical, because the policy stakes ........(skip)
The exchange began when Rick Santorum scored Mr. Romney for lacking health-care "credibility," since the 2006 Bay State reform "was the basis for ObamaCare." If the first claim is for primary voters to decide, no one who knows anything about health policy on the left or right would deny the second: When Democrats wrote the Affordable Care Act in 2009 and 2010, they borrowed liberally from Mr. Romney's model.
If the plans are not identical in every detail, they share major phenotypes: an individual mandate to buy health insurance or else pay a penalty; large transfer payments to subsidize the middle class; and much more government control over how insurance plans are structured, how medical services are delivered, and how both are priced.
"This is something that was crafted for Massachusetts," Mr. Romney responded in Las Vegas, repeating his stock answer. "It would be wrong to adopt this as a nation." The former Governor says Mr. Obama's plan "must be repealed" and then states can experiment with their own health-care solutions.
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Mr. Obama's unbridled expansion of government means that the election will present the electorate with the largest philosophical choice since 1980: To continue the trend toward a larger and growing government and the ever-higher taxes to pay for it, or to modernize the 20th century's broken government institutions. Republicans do not want to wake up in 2012 to discover that they have nominated someone who is unprepared, and maybe unwilling, to lead the reform of government that America needs.
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This time I will not blindly vote "R", if that R is Romney. I don't care what anyone thinks.
Santorum really did do a good job nailing Romney on this.
Simple: Romney has NO principles. He is as cynical a politician as can be found in the GOP.
Bending with the wind is his specialty.
Romney is smooth, but He’s a liar. A real leader owns His mistakes, solves them and moves on. Romney ran from His health care fiasco, blamed Newt and the Heritage group. He also lied when talking about State and Federal taxes when discussing Cains tax plan. We have zer0 who won’t own His gun running, Solar loans and bail outs. We can’t afford another smooth liar.
Damn MSM is sure pushing Romney, and he hasn’t be #1 for weeks...front runner no way......
When will W.S.J., Reuters, A.P. et al, quit refererring to Romney as “front runner”? How many polls must Cain win first?
Beat me by 5 seconds.
He’s number 1 in what way?
Good luck finding any!
That's very principled of you toby, have a youn'un who's under 26 do you?
Take away everybody else's benefit, but leave mine alone.
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