Obama for political reasons could never admit that if it were true but he did use Romneycare as an example of where he was taking things and Romney spoke of the cash flow issue by referring to “freeloaders” in his discussion of the need for a mandate to buy health insurance.
The GOP leaders with their support for a mandatory marketplace across state lines to buy insurance and the industry themselves with their dismay at Obama’s relaxing of the mandate to buy coverage tell us what its really all about.
Its all about putting more money in the pockets of the health insurance industry.
In its mechanics of mandating everyone to buy insurance, cancelling existing lower cost insurance and replacing it with higher priced insurance, Obamacare is designed to put more money into the health insurance industry.
I don’t for a minute believe that Obama himself fretted over using the “Romney did it” excuse prior to the elections. He and his minions all agreed he himself couldn’t say it because of the campaign, but that did not stop his minions from doing it.
The truth is that this legislation got ramrodded through almost overnight, from inception to implementation was a matter of weeks. One does not put together over 2000 pages of legislation in a matter of days/weeks. PPACA WAS a compendium of liberal wet dreams formally going back to pre 1994 and before updated with the latest Obama cabal socialist influences, and RomneyCare was just a small part of it, in my opinion.
I don’t argue your assertions about how the GOP reacted, nor the effects PPACA ended up influencing on the healthcare and insurance industry. I only argue I don’t think either industry is responsible for ObamaCare’s origination as your article implied - to me, anyway.
To me, this whole line of discussion is more General/Chat related than a News/Activism discussion, especially with no corresponding recent links discussing same.