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Romney Defense of Healthcare Sounds Familiar
posted by Ed Staff | Friday, January 27, 2012



Excellent work by our friends at ThinkProgress for putting together this video... Mitt Romney's defense of his Massachusetts healthcare plan sounds pretty familiar.  This would be one of those rare areas where, when Romney tells the truth, we agree with him.  Problem is, he doesn't tell the truth often enough.

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linda, virginia
1/28/2012 11:19:10 PM
Romney care= Obama Care...the only differences is president Obama does care. And he has never flip-flopped. Read his 2004 keynote speech for John Kerry He spoke of all this 8 years ago. He has stayed steady.
Rex, Moorhead
1/27/2012 9:18:59 PM
Mitt Romney was actually a moderate Republican before he was a conservative Republican. Yes, when Mitt Romney was a moderate Republican he was right about the Massachusetts health care plan that he signed into law. Governor Romney pass a reasonable and responsible healthcare law in Massachusetts years ago. President Obama passed a very similar healthcare law that has a personal mandate with health insurance made more affordable. Sorry, you need government sometimes to get into people's faces and make them do what is in their best interest. Many people will not pay attention to laws unless there is some sort of sanction. I support the mandate because it is the last hope to try and get 50 million uninsured back into the healthcare system.



The law has expanded Medicaid and tax subsidies, providing for a variety of health care plans for those who can not afford health insurance. These plans will fit most family's budget. The Massachusetts health care law did have start up costs to it but now it appears most people in Massachusetts apparently approve of it. I do not live in Massachusetts so I will leave it for a resident of that state to assess their health care law. But from what I have read it has worked reasonably well. So there is no reason to assume that President Obama's Affordable Healthcare act won't be successful. Assuming of course, that it is FULLY FUNDED and IMPLEMENTED at the state level with the insurance exchanges in place. No one has ever said that the Affordable Healthcare Act will immediately solve all problems in our hugely expensive and dysfunctional healthcare system overnight or even by 2014 for that matter. But the Affordable Healthcare Act is a very good foundation for building upon where we need to go, into some sort of Medicare public option. No doubt this will be a mix of regulated private insurance policies with Medicare and Medicaid combined to fill in the gaps so that we have universal healthcare coverage for all Americans. The rise in health insurance premiums makes the Medicare for all public option inevitable but we can try this mixed approach for the Affordable Healthcare Act to see if it works.


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