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The REAL Problem with Romney

By: natek58 (Diary)  |  April 15th, 2012 at 01:48 AM  | 

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RomneyCare.

He cannot escape it.  He signed it.

And now we have this: Mass. Healthcare Premiums Down 5%

While healthcare insurance premiums have gone up in other states, those  participating in the state’s Health Connector Commonwealth Care program are  enjoying a second year of reduced premium payments courtesy of the healthcare  reform act signed into law by then Gov. Mitt Romney, Forbes.com  reported.

President Barack  Obama‘s Affordable Care Act was patterned under Romney’s program in  Massachusetts and  designed to lower the amount of “free riders,” people who  don’t buy or can’t afford healthcare insurance but cannot by law, be turned away at a hospital emergency room if they have a  life-threatening illness, by mandating the purchase of healthcare insurance.

Read more: http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2012/04/14/Mass-healthcare-premiums-down-5/UPI-83201334422081/#ixzz1s51Ydrol

How can he escape it? The media wants ObamaCare.  Romney supporters, please tell me how Romney is going to survive through the election process without reversing course on his current stated position on ObamaCare.  OCare and RCare are so close to the same thing that it is embarrassing.

Look, I do not want ObamaCare. You don’t either.  But we are not going to have a choice come November.

The “best” Romney is going to be able to do, after August 30th, will be to claim that OCare is flawed in a way that RCare isn’t, or that insurance should be left to the states.  Both are extremely weak arguments.

My point is that nominating Romney is a cataclismic mistake.    The media will put out crap like the article linked above and force Romney to  embrace his legacy in Mass. once he is our nominee.  Then we will be stuck with it forever.

If you want Romney/ObamaCare, then by all means, nominate Romney.  There is still time to turn this around.

As Alan Stang used to say “Think about it!”

 

 

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  • http://www.AmericanThinker.com Hammer2008

    A simple solution for Mitt Romney to answer both RomneyCare and ObamaCare (aka PPACA) is to actually get behind the OPTION Act of 2012. I don’t mean simply give voice to it, but to one up even Newt Gingrich who said he will work with the new Congress to repeal PPACA and sign the bill on day one as president.

    Get behind an actual solution which affords Americans none to sure about the GOP on healthcare as it is. Recognize conservatives like Rep. Paul Broun and his OPTION Act of 2012:

    1. Fully repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

    2. Allow individuals to deduct 100 percent of their health care expenses, including insurance;

    3. Increases contribution limits and adds patient-friendly reforms to Health Savings Accounts

    4. Moves Medicare to a more flexible premium assistance program

    5. Expand choice and competition by allowing consumers to shop for health insurance across state lines;

    6. Makes it easier for groups to create association health plans, which would allow businesses, individuals and other entities to band together to increase availability and negotiate lower costs for their employees or members.

    OPTION

  • oldmom2

    and if the Supreme Court upholds the law I don’t know what Mr. Romney’s strategy will be on the issue. Without both the House and Senate support, the law cannot be simply repealed.

  • natek58

    that he supports fixing OCare to A. Be more like RCare, and B. to make it less oppressive on states’ rights. That’ll be all he can do. Our only hope is with the Supreme Court.

  • Kyle-MI

    If the Supreme Court upholds Obamacare, it would not matter who our nominee was without a filibuster proof majority in the Senate.

  • http://teapartisan.wordpress.com Loren Heal

    I’ll stipulate the assertions you make for the duration of this comment. It doesn’t mean I think they’re accurate, but they might be.

    The federal government (which is broke) is paying for it with a Medicaid subisidy.

    Also, MA premiums are still the highest anywhere, and grew at the fastest rate in the country after passage of the law. But their trajectory is less important to me than where they are.

    Also, premiums are price-controlled. That means that if they go down, something else goes up.

    Wait times to get actual health care? Through the roof.

    Finally, how much people pay for insurance is irrelevant. Who is subsidizing it all (Medicaid) is unimportant, too. What premiums cost, their trajectory, what else costs more (or even hypothetically., less) and how long people wait to be treated — all of that is irrelevant. Want to know why?

    Because under Romneycare, people are less free.

  • APA Guy

    Even the White House knows this already…Romneycare/Obamacare will be non-issues. The economy…gas prices…debt and deficits (and the sour value of the dollar)…THOSE are the issues of this campaign…and they’re issues Romney can win.

  • Viet71

    The only question at this point is, will it be:

    5-4
    6-3
    7-2
    9-0

    My bet (I’m not a good gambler but a pretty good lawyer) is: 6-3 or 9-0.

  • checkmate2012

    he tried to find a work around of fed policies. There is a great article on National Review Online that lays out exactly what Romney can say to counter the attack that there are the same or O’c copied R’care. The gist of the long article is that R’care is flawed but could only do so much to lower costs and that no state can fix the problems on its own given the fed policy constraints.

    But O’care could have fixed the federal policies to make the healthcare system better but instead made each of these 3 major parts worse in O’care:

    1. Medicare without competition now subject to a rationing board
    2. Vast Medicaid expansion w/o structual reform
    3. Leaving the tax treatment unchanged & adding regulations

    So instead of adressing the real problems listed above, this bill “makes the healthcare system less market-oriented, less efficient an less innovative”. It goes on to give Romney exactly what to say to combat O’care. The article is fairly long but worth the read:

    http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/289907/romney-vs-obamacare-yuval-levin?pg=3