Posted on 08/24/2012 11:01:32 PM PDT by WilliamIII
DENVER Mitt Romney said in an interview Thursday that his plan to provide universal health insurance in Massachusetts was superior to President Obama's own health care plan.
"My health care plan I put in place in my state has everyone insured, but we didn't go out and raise taxes on people and have a unelected board tell people what kind of health care they can have," Romney said in an interview with CBS' Denver affiliate, KCNC.
Obama's plan was modeled on Romney's, which has made some conservatives wary of the former Massachusetts governor. Some GOP activists were angered when a Romney spokeswoman touted the Massachusetts plan on Fox News earlier this month.
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Romney said the only difference between his plan and Hillary’s is “Mine got passed.”
Hmmm. Guess we have to take his word for it since the public never saw hers.
He can’t help himself. It’s who he is.
It was the same with McCain. He couldn’t help himself either, because that was who he was.
Romney will never see anything wrong with his vision of how things should run.
We have every right to criticize him for doing things that are wrong, but it’s the primary process that should be blamed here.
Now we’re stuck with this pig in a poke.
Should we really be blaming him for being who he is. Well yes, but more importantly we should be blaming our fellow Republicans and a process so flawed that this guy could even come close to being nominated as our champion.
We’ve got some work to do, and at this point Romney is water under the bridge.
Get ready, because this is something you’re going to be saying over and over and over again, for the next four or eight years.
“Sheesh. Not this crap again. Give it a rest, Romney.”
And by the way, dittos!!!!
Mr. RomneyCARE is as evil as Obama by
installing DEATH CARE for all America.
Thanks for the injection of Constitutional sanity.
I also noticed folks missing the point when Romney made the statement on Gays in the Boy Scouts - He said he SUPPORTED the Boy Scouts right to choose how to run itself and BELIEVED that anyone should be able to be a Boy Scout. All the Romney-makes-me-go-apesh.. folks focused on the "believe" statment and totally missed the important statement that preceded it. I'd rather have someone who believed something I didn't like, but instead of pushing it down my throat, would accede to the rights and liberties laid out in the Constitution.
That's exactly right, and even worse than that, they've been running around in mobs attacking those of us who won't drink the "ABO" hemlock and support Romney and the corrupt, decrepit GOP-E.
Call me a hard case, but Romney will NOT be getting my vote in November.
Period.
And that's based on his record of lying, double-dealing, double-talking, and generally doing anything and saying anything to get elected and push his statist agenda.
Romney enabled Obamacare and is proud of it. He can't contain himself.
Unfortunately, Romney’s touting state-level Obamacare (AKA Romneycare) as part of his platform. This is from the healthcare page on his website:
“Ensure flexibility to help the uninsured, including public-private partnerships, exchanges, and subsidies
Ensure flexibility to help the chronically ill, including high-risk pools, reinsurance, and risk adjustment”
http://www.mittromney.com/issues/health-care
Ain’t that the gospel truth. We know who Romney is but what is most important ..we know that he is not a conservative. I am fed up with the republican party. Romney is a liberal on social issues and he is responsible for introducing socialized medicine to the USA not just Mass but the USA.
Now we know what he is going to replace it with. How do you pay for it mitt? Your State that implemented romneycare hasn't been able to pay for it... they just write checks for which no funds exist as payment.How is that any different from what obama has been doing mitt? Granted it is on a smaller scale but you are talking about taking romneycare Nationwide? How are you going to pay for it mitt?
LLS
What about the individual? While the Constitution does delegate some powers to the state, the gist of it is protecting the individual against the collective. Are we for Obamacare now just as long as it is legislated by states and not the fed?
Does anyone seriously think this man will make it his life mission to end Obamacare?
That's because there is no distinction.
FUMR
You obviously need lessons in the US Constitution.
You obviously have NEVER read Article I of the US Constitution nor have you read the 9th and 10 Amendments.
If you don’t know the distinction between federal and state powers, I kindly suggest you go to the local community college and take a class in basic government and federalism.
That’s because there is no distinction.
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