Posted on 11/28/2009 4:00:18 PM PST by rabscuttle385
Asked during last night’s Republican debate about whether his campaign was downplaying his health care plan, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney replied, “I love it.” While praising the plan as a model of bipartisanship — and citing support for it from both Ted Kennedy and the Heritage Foundation — Romney failed to tell viewers what was in the plan.
It’s worth reminding people, therefore, that the plan Romney loves:
Imposes an unprecedented individual mandate, requiring everyone in Massachusetts to purchase a government-designated insurance product or face thousands of dollars in tax penalties.
Significantly increased Medicaid eligibility and provided taxpayer-funded subsidies for a family of four earning as much as $62,000 year, effectively extending welfare well into the middle class.
Creates a Hillary Clinton managed-competition-style regulatory authority called the Massachusetts Health Care Connector. This new regulatory body has already mandated that every health care policy sold in the state must cover prescription drugs and has outlawed policies with deductibles of more than $2,000.
Imposes a penalty on businesses that do not provide health insurance to their employees (although in fairness, this provision was enacted over Governor Romney’s veto.)
Greatly expands the state’s health care bureaucracy, creating at least 10 new boards, commissions, and other institutions to study and regulate health care.
Last night’s debate was held at the Ronald Reagan Library in California. The Gipper must surely be spinning in his grave.
Romney is NOT the one. Sarah Palin is.
Irony appreciated.
I don’t view Romney as much of a threat to Palin. The one I worry about is the Huckster. Because of the way the Republistupids do their primaries, the Huckster could win some early important rounds making things tougher for Sarah.
Romney has to spend so much money per vote that he’s not going to be much of a factor.
How much did he spend last time? How many votes did he get?
— and citing support for it from both Ted Kennedy and the Heritage Foundation — Romney failed to tell viewers what was in the plan.
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Romney is clearly on the Marxist power wagon. Two reasons right here. One — he LIED and said the Heritage Foundation supports socialized medicine (in so many words). Second — he, like all libs, did not disclose ANYTHING about “his” plan, thus furthering the lie of transparency and hiding another Soylent Green horror story.
Hasn’t he already proved all this in the People’s Republic of Massachusetts??
Scozzafava/Romney 2012
I've seen others here on FR post that an average mid-20s-mid-30s kid who lives in Massachusetts, by sole virtue of being a live human being of legal age, now has to come up with a mandatory insurance fee of $300 a month to comply, or a regular family something like $2400 a month for "coverage" and the deductible is something like $2400. What, do they think people are made of money? Do they think a normal healthy human or young family needs that much forced "care"???
So a young adult who should be able to learn how to swim jumping into life's adventure, find his/her own way in the world, has already, just by virtue of being born, this monthly nut of $300 he/she has to meet right out of the box? It's challenging enough to meet the rent and groceries! Have these people ever actually lived out here?????
But those are the terms defined by Democrats as the "solution" to a problem that exists mainly as a result of government and its litigation, its quest for control.
And Romney is all set to negotiate. He's such a schmuck.
Do they have that little respect for human dignity? Well ... I guess they do if they seek to force tax payers, thee and me, to PAY CASH for the abortion of our fellow humans. That's the height of indignity and evil enabled by the likes of Romney and his ilk -- Arnold? Whitman? Crist? The ones that let Democrats define the terms, and then negotiate in the name of "Republican."
Romney disgusts me. (In case you didn't catch that! ;^)
Huckabee isn't independently wealthy, and he's a dweeb no matter how hard he tries. If it was just him, he'd sink pronto. Romney is wealthy, handsome, and slick. The guy's like a vampire. And he sucks the resources of conservative candidates.
You’re right. Romney’s support and participation in enacting the Mass health plan was wrong and bungle-headed.
Does that make you obsessed Romney haters feel better?
He still was the only candidate who could have won in 2008.
Besides, there is no evidence Romney ever supported a nationalized universal health care plan.
Stay on topic. This has nothing to do with Romney’s religious beliefs, it has everything to do with him being a lying, three-faced RINO and is NOT a conservative.
Take your straw man ‘Mormon cult’ accusations elsewhere.
He’s the GHW Bush of the next election. If Palin prevails he’s likely to be her VP candidate.
Then what do we do reelect Obama or hold our noses and vote for lesser evil?
Romney will play the same role as Bush for Reagan. Softening and mollifying the RINOs and mushy middle (aka independents (those too daffy to choose a side)), filling out Palin’s missing credentials and helping her with the pro-business vote/lobby.
I am voting for Sarah.
What Mitt Witt did at the state level should be a red flag for what he would do at the national level.
He is the epitome of a RINO, and his flip-flops on abortion demonstrate that his main political principle is *expediency*.
His father made the comment in ‘68 that he had been ‘brainwashed’ on the topic of Vietnam, and 40 years later his little boy Willard made a game attempt at trying to brainwash the GOP in nominating him.
It didn’t happen. It’s not going to happen.
Any questions?
Consult our Founder JimRob so perhaps you can ‘get your mind right’.
Romney and Hucka-Bucka-Beanstalk are out for me. I will not vote for either of them. Romney is a good business manager, but he has no principles. Huckster is a proven socialist on spending, and he’s a religious bigot.
Yeah, just what we needed...a white obama.
Since when did the Heritage Foundation support socialized medicine in Massachusetts? Is there any evidence for that?
Romney is like government -- not part of the solution, but part of the problem.
He's not pro-business any more than Soros or Geffen or Gates or Buffet or Richard Branson or any other wealthy businessman. Hell, it's his businessman's principles that make him so disgustingly dangerous -- taxpayers are employees.
No principled businessman could perceive Romney as on his side or the side of free markets and personal responsibility. An unprincipled or shallow-thinking one, yes, but a business person based in conservative principle, not for a second.
The GOP and Republicans need to start choosing their candidates not on appeal to groups, but to INDIVIDUAL AMERICANS. Screw the "pro business vote lobby" and the Gay lobby and the Hispanic lobby and the Women's Vote and the Asian and all the rest of it. Stop appealing to groups and start appealing to Americans who just want the government the hell off their necks and back in the servants' quarters.
So claiming that Heritage "endorsed" your plan when the final outcome was far different is simply a politician's way of coloring the truth.
Interesting that the only one on thread to mention Myth’s religion was a mittbot, playing the victim card.
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