Romney Condemns Obama's Health Plan--But Obama's Plan is a Clone of the Massachusetts Plan Romney Signed!
Mitt Romney criticized Barack Obama's health care proposal over the weekend in New Hampshire. According to The Baltimore Sun, Romney said, "Barack Obama said we're going to have the government take over health care. He at least had the integrity to say he wants to raise your taxes." He added, "The right answer is not a government takeover, it's not socialized medicine. It's not Hillarycare." Separately, at a Sunday town hall meeting, Romney said, "I don't want the guys who ran the [Hurricane] Katrina cleanup running my health care system."
I am not here to tell you Obama has the best plan, or he doesn't--or that any other candidate does or doesn't for that matter. I do feel comfortable in telling you that Obama pretty much has the plan Romney signed into law in Massachusetts.
In fact, Obama's plan doesn't go as far as the Mass plan Romney signed--the Obama plan doesn't have an individual mandate!
Which planet is Romney from?
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I've given up trying to figure out what Romney stands for, or even what constituency he hopes to pander to. Hillary decimated him the other day with a remarkable comeback. He was trying to bad-mouth her economic plan when he said: ""Hillary Clinton just gave a speech the other day about her view on the economy. She said we have been an on-your-own society. She said it's time to get rid of that and replace that with shared responsibility and we're-in-it-together society," Romney told the crowd. "That's out with Adam Smith and in with Karl Marx."
To which Hillary replied: "Given how often Romney flip-flops, tomorrow he will be touting his membership in the Communist Party."
That one still makes me giggle when I read it.
That's the most ridiculous propaganda I've ever heard!
I didn't know that there were only two ways of policy...either I'm Adam Smith or Karl Marx...wow.
Oh, Romney. Though I'm not sure if the Mass policy was just a political agreement- even if he vetoed it, he would be overcome. But Still. That's just..too much. Good post though!
Resorting to labels just shows how desperate Romney is getting. It's kind of pathetic. I think people should go to Obama's web site and read his entire health plan. Then go to Romney's, read his plan, and make up their own mind. In my opinion Obama doesn't go far enough and is a little too accomodating to insurers and providers. Even so, his plan is light years ahead of Romney's.
- CM
Mitt Romney is a Social Darwinist carpetbagger with no real convictions. Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he has no concept of how real Americans live. He was bored with the governor's job ten minutes after he was elected in Massachusetts and as his parting gift, he left us his nightmare of a health care law.
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