What We Have To Look Forward To....

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Originally Posted by Ferd

not true

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XdWI...eature=related

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Romneycare and Obamacare
A distinction without a difference

The Massachusetts Health Connector Plan (aka Romneycare), like Obamacare, had the stated goal of addressing escalating health-care costs and reducing the number of uninsured people. Now, after five years in existence, the Romney health-care overhaul has failed to bring costs down, and it has also failed to increase the number of people with private insurance. As a direct consequence of Romneycare’s intrusive meddling in the private health-insurance market, health-care costs have skyrocketed in the state. Massachusetts has the highest average health-care premiums in the nation, with per capita spending 27 percent higher than the national average. Overall health-care costs in the state continue to rise at an average rate of 8 percent annually. And of the approximate 383,000 newly insured Massachusetts residents, the vast majority are enrolled in a state-run entitlement program. A shortage of providers, combined with increased demand, is increasing waiting times to see a physician. As recently as 2009, 56 percent of internal-medicine doctors no longer accepted new patients in Massachusetts.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...rick-santorum#

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Originally Posted by Pressing-On

Romneycare and Obamacare
A distinction without a difference

The Massachusetts Health Connector Plan (aka Romneycare), like Obamacare, had the stated goal of addressing escalating health-care costs and reducing the number of uninsured people. Now, after five years in existence, the Romney health-care overhaul has failed to bring costs down, and it has also failed to increase the number of people with private insurance. As a direct consequence of Romneycare’s intrusive meddling in the private health-insurance market, health-care costs have skyrocketed in the state. Massachusetts has the highest average health-care premiums in the nation, with per capita spending 27 percent higher than the national average. Overall health-care costs in the state continue to rise at an average rate of 8 percent annually. And of the approximate 383,000 newly insured Massachusetts residents, the vast majority are enrolled in a state-run entitlement program. A shortage of providers, combined with increased demand, is increasing waiting times to see a physician. As recently as 2009, 56 percent of internal-medicine doctors no longer accepted new patients in Massachusetts.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...rick-santorum#

Let me add The Cato Institutes opinion.

http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_repo...cpr30n1-1.html

So he promises to repeal a healthcare plan patterned after his own plan? Ha ha ha!

I still want to know how he plans to repeal something in one day that Congress legislated!

If he succeeds, then doesn't that make him a <gasp> dictator bypassing Congress?

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Originally Posted by AreYouReady?

Let me add The Cato Institutes opinion.

http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_repo...cpr30n1-1.html

So he promises to repeal a healthcare plan patterned after his own plan? Ha ha ha!

I still want to know how he plans to repeal something in one day that Congress legislated!

If he succeeds, then doesn't that make him a <gasp> dictator bypassing Congress?

This whole election cycle is ridiculous.

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How will the Supreme Court rule in Obama v. Romney?

A thumbs-down verdict from the Supremes on the mandate, the legal requirement that all Americans obtain health insurance, would also complicate life for Mitt Romney. As governor of Massachusetts, Romney’s signature accomplishment was the 2006 passage of a landmark health care bill that featured (isn’t political irony wonderful?) a statewide insurance mandate. While the Massachusetts law, enacted under the state constitution, would not be affected by a Supreme Court ruling, it would leave Romney in the awkward position of trying to explain yet again the difference between his mandate (good) and Obama’s mandate (bad).

http://news.yahoo.com/how-will-the-s...--romney-.html

If it gets struck down, Romney will handle it in his usual way. He reminds me of a preacher I was under. Committing adultery while preaching against it. He'll do a superb, obfuscating job of it.

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Originally Posted by AreYouReady?

I would say that only one candidate is telling a lie, but that would likewise be a lie.

Please tell me how Romney is going to repeal legislation by Congress on his first day in office?

He can grant waivers to all 50 states.
Old news.

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PO - under our Constitution the states have the right to implement this.
The Federal Government does not.

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Originally Posted by Pressing-On

If it gets struck down, Romney will handle it in his usual way. He reminds me of a preacher I was under. Committing adultery while preaching against it. He'll do a superb, obfuscating job of it.

And your obsession with Mitt reminds me of a friend of mine who became obsessed with Michael Jordan.
He still lives at home with his mom...

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Originally Posted by aegsm76

PO - under our Constitution the states have the right to implement this.
The Federal Government does not.

Point - Making it a state issue doesn't make the mandate come out any better on the economic side.

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Originally Posted by aegsm76

And your obsession with Mitt reminds me of a friend of mine who became obsessed with Michael Jordan.
He still lives at home with his mom...

LOL! FYI, I largely post at AFF for the politics. It's because the language is better than other places allow. You need to get over your obsession of me being obsessed. Duh, it's an election year or were not aware of that?