Posted on 11/28/2009 4:00:18 PM PST by rabscuttle385
Asked during last nights 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.
Its 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 Romneys veto.)
Greatly expands the states health care bureaucracy, creating at least 10 new boards, commissions, and other institutions to study and regulate health care.
Last nights debate was held at the Ronald Reagan Library in California. The Gipper must surely be spinning in his grave.
Of course! All the gutsy FReepers have them :-)
The people who need protection are the those upon
whom socialized medicine and gay marriage were imposed
by King Romney the Carpetbagger.
You make a good point. I stand corrected.
I’m hoping, though, that a 3-way race with Palin both Huckabee and Romney will get far fewer votes than they got against McCain.
Still on of my favorite Romneybot screeds...
Never get an answer on what this theory is based on.
Fantasy I guess.
The reality is that despite spending more money than any other GOP candidate he cold not beat McCain or Huckabee.
MCAIN OR HUCKABEE!
Seesh...
And you think he would have beat Obama?
There is more than enough to sink Mitt politically without the LDS. Indeed that was where I stood until he dropped, and knew little nor cared little about the LDS issue.
But, and I say this as one of your “manics”, I discovered like many before me, that there are more the enough issues with the LDS for those with a actual “dog in the fight” to take interest in.
What fact is he pointing out exactly?
He’s not gone, he’s running for President in 2012.
“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.”
DING DING DING
We have a winner!
Well done, Finny.
Thank you for the kind words! :^)
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