Friday, July 31, 2009
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In Case You Missed It...
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Posted by:
Meredith Jessup at
3:10 PM
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USA Today ran an op-ed yesterday from Former Mass. Governor Mitt Romney. In it, Romney encourages President Obama not to rush health care reform efforts, and that he should listen to differing views, including some from icky Republicans!
To catch Gov. Romney's piece, click here.
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Gov. Romney is recommending a business approach to solve a health-care-quality incentive problem.
Gov. Romney is recommending a serious bipartisan approach to finding common ground in designing a health care approach.
Gov. Romney is recommending that Pres. Obama not be allowed to stampeed us and our Congress into a quick fix - as if the element of time itself is the problem and time must be stopped (with a poor solution).
Gov. Romney is recommending we look at the agreed on principles that took 2 years to develop in MASS as a touchstone for the national model. (Imagine learning the good, the bad, and the ugly from recent history.)
Gov. Romney is suggesting we all keep our heads, keep our witts about us, and keep our cool and we take TIME to discuss, analyze, and work out acceptable compromises (not a bad word).
Gov. Romney is right. Did you read the 498 comments on this article - link? MANY of them found merit in Mitt's recommendations.
He has my vote in 2012. All you frightened people who worry about his religion, ask yourself to why people are telling you garbage about his faith. What's in it for them?
Ever hear of freedom of religion?
He's a faithful husband, good father, public servant, successful businessman, BECOMING a skillful communicator to us via speeches and writings, and he is willing to spend his senior years (on the beach?) on the hard seats of public opinion to make this country a better, safer, fiscally sound nation.
A modern patriot, if you ask me.
He even forgave his political enemies (Christian behavior). He has heart, courage, and brains and casts a long shadow on the young internist in our White House. |
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whatsoever to do with real people in the real world. "Center-Left"...? A reacher outer, our Bammy??
Liberalism really IS a Mental Disorder. |
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Of all the people to suggest a counter-proposal, Romney proposing that the nation follow Romneycare as done in MA is almost equivalent to the Obamacare currently under consideration.
Both mandate the individual purchase health insurance, and penalize individuals for not having insurance. In the state of MA, this penalty is now more than $1,000, and is collected along with Form 1 of your income taxes in a supplementary form, schedule HC. These mandates are universal, do not allow you to escape if you don't WANT health insurance, and offer no reprieve if you lose your job. It amounts to a poll tax for having the audacity to keep breathing.
Neither controls costs. Just ask MA, which is now considering moving to a Global Payer System -- in other words, the state pays the doctor more if their patients stay healthy in the eyes of the state, providing a perverse incentive to not offer treatment -- all because insuring the uninsured resulted in exploding costs. I've also seen polling where a plurality of MA state residents consider Romneycare to be a failure.
All Obamacare is is a worse version of Romneycare. They're both deeply, fundamentally flawed. Obama simply adds a flourish of further failure at the end. If Romney had any political sense, he'd run away from his own program and try to sweep it under the rug, because it is an embarassment.
I'm an atheist, but God save the GOP. |
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the man has six Reeps holding very high positions in his administration. everyone knows the score here. Reeps don't negotiate. they are consumed in their own conceits and will not compromise. you cannot deal with the bulk of them. they need a lesson in manners, much less the grown-up business of cutting deals. President Obama will keep reaching out--it is his nature as a center-left guy. But this generation of Reeps are as intransigent as they are silly and childish. |
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