To the headline: I am not surprised.
Romney has said this before and his advisers have said he is not going to repeal obamacare.
How anyone is shocked by this is a mystery.
So much for holding his feet to the fire.
You know Romney ****** *******
The insurance companies have already said they would keep
that provision if Obamacare is repealed.
Republicans don’t know how to play the game.
They are not smart in politics.
They don’t know how to communicate.
The whole point is why does the federal government CONTROL
the health insurance companies in what they can offer?
THEY MUST OFFER IT, or probably get a hefty lawsuit/fine from the
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
ROmney you SUCK
These two provisions are already enacted are the cost falls on the end-user, not the government. I hope they create a provision that places these people in a unique pool and that, if I purchase private care, I can opt out of it and keep my costs lower. I hope they enact tort reform and I want to see them enable state-to-state portability and HSA flexibility too. If there is a plan in NC that pays better and doesn’t offer coverage to 26yo slackers and sex changes, I should be able to buy that.
The largest part of Obamacare, the mandate is what people most closely associate with, will be overturned no doubt but there will be parts of the legislation that will stay in place because they have already been enacted. That bell has already been rung and all the bitching, moaning and name calling won’t change that fact.
The whole purpose of ObamaCare is to serve as the first step in separating medical insurance from employment ... thereby removing one of the largest cost items from the accounting ledger of every major U.S. corporation. The GOP is 100% behind this, but was perfectly content to let this jug-eared dupe in the White House and that hag Speaker of the House stand up and put the whole thing together.