Do you believe in state’s rights? I am not a fan of Mittens, but claims that state level Romneycare (which if I lived in Massachusetts I would have voted against) and national level Obamacare are synonymous is intellectually dishonest. The residents of the state of Taxachusetts have the right to be stupid and support it and bear the consequences.
If two appointments to the Supreme Court would not be waiting for the next president, I could understand the intransigence towards voting for Romney, but to allow Obama to have two more selections for the Supreme Court will destroy this country, just look at his two choices so far, Sotomayor and Kagan, and the thought of Obama having two more choices should be abhorrent to your conservative beliefs. If you are intellectually honest, Mittens values are not even close Obama’s and would not champion the evil that Obama would seek to inflict on this country that we love.
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I’ll support Romney over Obama, but to paint him as some champion of states rights via Romneycare is laughable.
Both systems present an unquestionable path to fully nationalized healthcare. The ‘exchanges’, which are in Romney’s healthcare platform to this day—only to be implemented on a state by state level—rather than Obamacare’s specific form of state-by-state coercion, is really a pre-nationalization staging plan.
Romneycare has survived as far as it has with massive federal subsidies, which of course aren’t sustainable on a 50-state basis. You already have doctor shortages and extended times to get doctor appointments in MA now. MA just legislated state-level price controls to try to stem the rises in cost, but of course that will only make for more shortages and a less tenable system.
Romney wants to be president, and has figured out he has to campaign to ‘repeal and replace’ in order to do so. But his massive ego has been tied up in the idea of government forcing people to buy health insurance for years now, and he’s not going to stop with trying to prove the superiority of his technocratic, expanded-government solution.