Posted on 03/10/2012 7:48:30 PM PST by Steelfish
Santorum Blasts Gingrich Over 'Romneycare'
Chris Welch Springfield, Missouri (CNN) – It's a common aspect of Republican Rick Santorum's stump: attacking Mitt Romney for creating - and then "recommending" - "Romneycare" to President Barack Obama.
But Saturday, fresh off his projected win in the Kansas caucuses, Santorum added that GOP presidential rival Newt Gingrich is "honestly not a whole lot better."
"For 20 years when I was pushing medical savings accounts, he was pushing a federal mandate for health insurance," Santorum said. "And when 'Romneycare' passed, he sent out a glowing statement talking about how this wonderful bill had just passed in Massachusetts."
Santorum argues that Obama, Gingrich and Romney all line up on the same side when it comes to their support for an individual mandate.
The campaign points to a 2006 newsletter Gingrich wrote for his consulting firm, the Center for Health Transformation, in which he praised Romney's Massachusetts health care reform.
"The health bill that Governor Romney signed into law this month has tremendous potential to effect major change in the American health system," Gingrich wrote, according to the report.
Also in the newsletter, Gingrich expressed his support for the individual mandate in Massachusetts, but only for those making at least $54,000 a year. And while he commended Romney's effort in building the plan, he acknowledged the bill will likely face "tremendous scrutiny" from those who doubt the law will work.
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Nahhh, St. Ricky will say he did it for G-d... and the children.
And our Conservative idjit brigade will nod their heads and pronounce it good.
Nahhh, St. Ricky will say he did it for G-d... and the children.
And our Conservative idjit brigade will nod their heads and pronounce it good.
I agree. Hitler was a piece of filth.
But he was great at speeches.
Scares the life out of me in our current situation.
Sorry. I misread your post. I apologize.
Regards
I misinterpreted the post. I made a mistake. Sorry. I am just a little jittery about all the Rick hate here at FR. I did not see that coming.
Regards.
And somehow that translates into needing a government to force morals onto it's citizenry? Is that not what Obama is already doing?
Oh, wait... it's just that it's not *OUR* morals he's forcing down our throats. That morals are being forced down our throats by government officials is okay, though.
Sick. Very sick... to think it your right to tell your neighbor how to live their own life.
(See my tagline.)
Newt has talked about one little piece of software to do it all.
I agree, in dermatology there are not a lot of acute or life-threatening emergencies. There are not a lot of patients where a detailed medical history is vital, and I mean details in the way a primary care would want access to the details of his patients' histories...
But mostly this - walk into an ER now, and you see docs with little handhelds, entering data in, the same way you probably once did with a mic and for a transcriber, and they are very very comfortable with that, and the hospitals handle all the details. and it is really much easier in a multiples practice, or so I've been told. they don't dictate, it is all "normals" - alert and oriented, cce - clubbing cyanosis edema - only they don't say it like you probably do - they digitally enter it. some people think it is very dangerous - to have so much data so generic.
As for dragon, there are lots of people who think that isn't going to cut it. That it is not going to be able to handle what you describe wanting to do. Only it hasn't gotten through to the people who need to know that. and that is going to have to play out - people assuming it will evolve and advance - but it probably won't. And lots of people are going to back to the oldfashioned medical transcription companies or transcribers on site. Only dragon keeps making these incredible claims, increasing income 10K per doc per year yada yada.
I don't know of any record Santorum has on EMR. and that may be my lack of info.
And - finally - i just feel very very comfortable with Newt's sense of balance with what he calls 21st solutions, and the need for privacy and personal control. I feel very comfortable with that. Newt has talked about his foray into the private sector opening his eyes in a very realistic way to how intrusive govt is in the lives of any entrepreneur, medical or otherwise.
Now this pic below is your pal Ricky endorsing Mr. RINO Myth in 2008 for pres.
You do understand the difference? LoL.
Nicely said.
"Saying that a person who objects to corporate plunder is anti-capitalist is exactly like saying a person who objects to abortion is anti-medicine."
A freeper wrote that, and I must have posted it in a million different places curing that little kerfluffle.
Romney is outspending Rick 10-1 at least, so it’s pretty hard to see any defeat as “humiliating”. If the Massachusetts liberal wasn’t independently rich, he’d have been out of the race before Florida.
*Cough* There is NO WAY Obamacare will stand under Santorum. Have you been listening to a word the man has said?
TRUTH hurts I see. Mr anti-abortion himself campaigning for pro abortion candidate. My, my values be damn, I gotta take one for team.
Some much for his values being #1. Compromise comes first. And so much for his not liking Romneycare.
So his reason to drink has to align with yours to be legitimate. LOL!!
Anyone who believes that a Pres. Santorum would look for U.N. support is the kind of gullible fellow that the Madison Ave. liars depend upon to become very wealthy. On the other issues as well, he has spoken out. Bob
Think, for a minute, on what the Presidency can do on the issue.
It can reopen US offshore territory for oil drilling (like all the oil fields shut down by Obama in the gulf... plus the oil fields off the coasts of Florida and California).
It can approve the Keystone oil pipeline. It can open ANWAR to drilling. It can direct the EPA to auto approve any drilling, pipeline, or refinery construction permits.
It can threaten to withhold Depertment-level funding for any state that files lawsuits to stop this.
Now, with all that, there will be a large increase in oil supplies worldwide, pushing prices downward. Additionally, with an excess supply, any threats originating from Iran will have less effect, as there will be a buffer in the world's supply chain.
Which then leads to lower prices.
Additionally, the President can direct the Treasury department and the head of the Federal Reserve to place a strong dollar as their paramount concern... which would end our massive dumping of dollars into the world market (making it buy less and less).
Which would then mean that imports (and any commodity, like oil, as well) will be cheaper due to a stronger dollar.
Combine all that... and it's pretty reasonable to figure $2.50/gallon for a good ball-park figure for gasoline.
And all that would not require any approve from Congress.
Which is why I threw out the barb about your incapacity for rational thought. As this was all just a simple exercise in it.
LOL!! The media doesn’t have talking points on Rick. They want to keep him until the time is right. He’s on a free ride until then.
I’m sure he could get a job in the coal mines if worse came to worse. And Mitt would run the company store. Newt, he’d replace the canary.
“Depertment-level” should read “Department-level”.
(I sent this through the spell check and it missed this?!?)
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