Posted on 03/02/2012 4:15:43 PM PST by red flanker
Had Michigan not been as close, the Democrats would have waited to spring this on us in the general election. Luckily we have it now and I hope Ohio voters are paying attention.
In July 2009, Mitt Romney wrote an op-ed in USA Today urging Barack Obama to usean individual mandate at the national level to control healthcare costs.
On the campaign trail now, Mitt Romney says the individual mandate is appropriate for Massachusetts, but not the nation. Repeatedly in debates, Romney has said he opposes a national individual mandate.
But back in 2009, as Barack Obama was formulating his healthcare vision for the country, Mitt Romney encouraged him publicly to use an individual mandate. In his op-ed, Governor Romney suggested that the federal government learn from Massachusetts how to make healthcare available for all.
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
Yeah, good point. Palin, I suppose.
Interesting that, in the age of the Internet, something as important as a USAToday op-ed would have gone undiscovered for so long.
Oh good grief. Really? Googling USA Today for an old op-ed passes for opposition research and/or investigative journalism these days?
Really sad.
" Health care cannot be handled the same way as the stimulus and cap-and-trade bills. With those, the president stuck to the old style of lawmaking: He threw in every special favor imaginable, ground it up and crammed it through a partisan Democratic Congress. Health care is simply too important to the economy, to employment and to America's families to be larded up and rushed through on an artificial deadline. There's a better way. And the lessons we learned in Massachusetts could help Washington find it.
Our experience also demonstrates that getting every citizen insured doesn't have to break the bank. First, we established incentives for those who were uninsured to buy insurance. Using tax penalties ($2000 per non-insured person) , as we did, or tax credits, as others have proposed, encourages "free riders" to take responsibility for themselves rather than pass their medical costs on to others. This doesn't cost the government a single dollar (right, it cost the people who pay fines, because they don't listen to Obama or Romney). Second, we helped pay for our new program by ending an old one (and he pretended that nothing was going to change for people who had insurance!)— something government should do more often. The federal government sends an estimated $42 billion to hospitals that care for the poor: Use those funds instead to help the poor buy private insurance, as we did." - Mitt Romney
Don't spend money on the poor, is Romney's motto! We knew that he doesn't care about the poor, but we learn now that Mitt doesn't care for the sick poor people either.
I’ve been saying Milt was a liberal- and if you vote for him you are a liberal.. the fact is many conservatives dont know this news and probally wont ever know. all they know is they are voting for a conservative, but they aint..
Do you even know what government mandate means? It means that you have no choice but to go against you own conscience and / or will. And that will be for anything if Obamacare stands.
When has any government mandate ever reduced the costs on anything? When has the government ever out performed the free market?
I thought this was perfectly well known, and for a while. Breaking?
Either an idiot or under 25, but then I repeat myself.
He joined Jan 2012. I smell a DU troll.
Redstate has it as “breaking” - Romney’s ‘defense’ of Romneycare has been that it was ok for Massachusetts, but not for the nation as a whole. Now they’ve found a 2009 op-ed where he urged Obama to use an individual mandate on a national level.
Hum...
Regulation of the human body has set the framework for Arbeitsziehungslager. And note the evil already being manifested as we speak, from those Exempted Ones, to those given waivers. Everyone else, a target.
Regulation of the human body, belongs only to the Holy Spirit. “Know ye not that, the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, and ye are not your own.” ?
Regulation of the human body has set the framework for Arbeitsziehungslager. And note the evil already being manifested as we speak, from those Exempted Ones, to those given waivers. Everyone else, a target.
Regulation of the human body, belongs only to the Holy Spirit. “Know ye not that, the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, and ye are not your own.” ?
Your kidding, right?
Regardless of free loaders, the “cure” of Romneycare/Obamacare is far worse than the supposed disease of freeloading.
And government controlled HC isn’t even about freeloaders or HC. It’s about taking away the people’s rights and freedoms. IF you don’t know that by now, what planet are you from?
It is not about health care, it has NEVER been...it is about controlling us, and ridding the planet of those who oppose their Utopia...we are human debris, those of us who champion Liberty.....so THEY say...
So you support Romney, do you?
Dear Troll, if you fail to vote against Obama, you are a communist fellow traveler or A USEFUL IDIOT!
Again, you’re kidding, right?
You are for mandates but against government run insurance??
Sounds like you don’t know that mandates come by government passed laws.
Duh.
The split in the GOP is deep and wide, between those who believe things can go on as they are, if better managed, and those who believe the old order is finished.
The nomination process, as designed, cannot resolve this tension.
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