Posted on 11/12/2014 4:47:31 PM PST by Ray76
(Oct 11, 2011) Newly obtained White House records provide fresh details on how senior Obama administration officials used Mitt Romneys landmark health-care law in Massachusetts as a model for the new federal law, including recruiting some of Romneys own health care advisers and experts to help craft the act now derided by Republicans as Obamacare.
The White House wanted to lean a lot on what wed done in Massachusetts, said Jon Gruber, an MIT economist who advised the Romney administration on health care and who attended five meetings at the Obama White House in 2009, including the meeting with the president.
In addition to Obama himself, the meetings attended by Gruber were presided over by the presidents chief economic adviser, Lawrence Summers, then budget director Peter Orzag and Nancy-Ann DeParle, the presidents chief adviser on health care, the records show. Gruber was also given a $380,000 contract by the Obama administration in 2009 to work with Congress on drafting a new federal law based on the Massachusetts law, records show.
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That’s all nice and good but not one single solitary GOP congressman voted for it in the US house or Senate.
Mr. RomneyCARE and the EXEMPT GOP
STILL Support this travesty
that will kill Americans
who survive the EV-68, tuberculosis, Ebola,
and other imported-by-force diseases
the malicious, odious EXEMPT Congress has forced on America.
I could be wrong, though
Ted Kennedy legacy— the kennedys ugly fingerprints all over the healthcare nightmare.
Kennedy pushed HMOS—— so they would FAIL in care.
Then, Kennedy pushed nationalized single payer healthcare from the government== “free”.
The ACA is designed to FAIL such that we would be forced into single payer. A disaster in every sense brought to you
by venture socialist/marxists.
Romney is a statist socialists. He is in the republicrat “establishment” I will stay home again if he is nominated. No difference at all with demorats. But if he gets in he will get slaughtered by Cruz.
But there are still FReepers that’ll vote for him!
I saw this segment about Gruber this morning on Morning Joe.
Former Gov. of Vermont Howard Yeah! Dean said the problem was the law was written by a bunch of elitist who dont fundamentally understand the American people.
Gruber talking to Roan Mia Farrow said that the better way to do it was how they did it in MA and give people money to offset their healthcare, but that was politically unfeasible, and instead it was done through the tax code.
Now here is the spin from the panel:
Mike Barnacle:There was an budget director, Stockman, during the Reagan administration that said during an interview that none of us really understands the federal budget. Implying that Reagan knew nothing about the budget.
Mika said but there was a huge firestorm afterwards.
Dean: This guy was merely a consultant, not the architect, so it is not a bad a reflection of the current administration as that was on Reagans. And Stockman had a direct line to the president while Gruber probably did not.
Elise Viebak:(staff writer on the Hill, I think)
Makes this sounds very conspiratol, and that this was done in secret in back rooms. But there was a much more open process than Republicans believe. The parts of the bill was out there and open.
Dean: The Republicans are didnt want to their input, so they should stop complaining, since they were trying to sabotage it. Its the law 15 mil on OC. Plenty, Dean did not like but its the law and it works. This dustup is beating a dead horse.
http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/deangop-didnt-want-input-on-obamacare-356828739740
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Killing two birds with ONE STONE PING!!
Which came first...Hillarycare or Romneycare?”
RomneyCare, ObamaCare, apples and oranges.
If Obama used RomneyCare as his model, that's bad in and of itself, but they're two different things.
RomneyCare didn’t work at the state level either.
So, Obamacare used Romneycare passed in one of the bluest state in the Union. Why in the world does it automatically mean that Romneycare is a conservative idea? The fact that Obamacare got zero Republican vote in Congress is all that matters to make it a Democrat partisan one-size-fits-all monstrosity of a bill. The only Republican who can be tied to it is Romney. Who cares?
Hell those dumb monkey’s in the White House can not even plagiarize Romney’s mistakes; they should have gotten the proficient and experienced plagiarizer Joe Biden to copy it.
No wonder the chief monkey will not authorize the release of his school records, his marks are exactly the same as who ever sat next to him.
It helps explain why so many bible believing Christians refused to vote for the man.
Dean is a bald faced liar. Gruber met with Nero 19 times to discuss NeroCare, helped write it and was paid 400,000 dollars to promote it
Every one of these NAZI bastards ought to be serving life for their corruption.
Gruber was Romney’s man before he was Obama’s man.
Couple of obvious differences:
Mass. is a state.
The law was debated and voted on by both parties and was actually known what was in it.
Let’s get your information out. They should not be able to hide from their complicity and collaboration.
Which is where it should have been tried, and failed, and ended.
State's rights! Oops, was that my outside voice?
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