Curmudgeonly & Skeptical presents Boned Jello: Mitt

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Mitt

The Massachusetts Health Mess
Massachusetts shows how ObamaCare would really work.

I can't trust anyone who served in our military and joins the Democrat party. I'm wary of any Republican who manages to get elected in Massachusetts. Neither one computes. In 2006 Massachusetts Governor Romney spearheaded, and got state mandated health care. It was an insult to the concept of "liberty," and a too obvious FAIL waiting to happen. It's happened. And it's why Mitt Romney was just above bottom feeder John McCain on my personal list of 2008 presidential hopefuls. Still is. Goes to core beliefs.

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he Massachusetts law, which was championed by former GOP Governor Mitt Romney, imposed an individual mandate, requiring nearly all residents to buy health insurance or else pay a penalty. (The exceptions are those who qualify for the state's public program.) This was supposed to cover everybody and save money too. We've written before about how costs have exploded, but it also turns out that consumers have other ideas. [They gamed the system, the fate of all gummint social welfare programs.]

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With all due respect to Alear, and others on this site who really like Mitt.

Rodger the Real King of France 7/11/2009 08:15:00 AM 9 Comments

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9 comments:

LindaSoG said...: This
article, written by a boston doctor, has some yadda yadda in it, but it makes a good case against RomneyCare.

I'll bring here two of them about RomneyCare that to me really drive it home.

First, for an individual earning $31,213, the cheapest plan is around $9,872 in premiums and out-of-pocket payments. That's a third of your income.

Think about that. A third of your income to someone at that level. That's supposed to be affordable?

Second, at Cambridge Heath Alliance, Cancer treatments have been interrupted because some patients can't afford the copayments.

If that's true, then that one reason alone is reason enough to shut down RomneyCare for the good of all. And, reason enough to shut down Romney himself, for the good of all.; 7/11/09, 11:17 AM
Jack said...: Let's look at the existing plan, Medicare. If it is so great then why doesn't it cover 100% of the medical costs? Seniors on SS can expect to pay a $300-$500 monthly "premium" for a private supplemental insurance plan for "Medigap". Take $300 or $500 from a SS stipend of $800 to $1000 and that old fart is soon begging for the end. Holden will be there for them too!!! The feds can't even fund what's already there. with the up coming inflation about to hit fixed incomes they are dead meat. It was called Genocide in the day's of Josef Memgele.; 7/11/09, 11:39 AM
Anonymous said...: Don't like Romney, wouldn't vote for him. DO luv the imagery you chose to define your point!; 7/11/09, 11:43 AM
d'Not said...: The iron clad test for any national health care bill is all elected officials, now and future, must be covered and accept it as their sole source of medical care for themselves and their immediate family. Let Teddy be the trial case.

Mudgeon from Texas; 7/11/09, 12:41 PM
Anonymous said...: Romney is the bright-lightbulb that signed RomneyCare. No way I am voting for him in 2012.

Huckabee is a complete idiot. He is the reason we got John "Yosemite Sam" McCain in 2008.

Who does that leave?

Oh yeah! Sarah Palin; 7/11/09, 1:29 PM
Anonymous said...: This is why compromise and bipartisanship and all that other feel-good PC bullshit is so dangerous.

Crush them under the heel of a jackboot. They are traitors to the principles America was founded upon.

Just to be clear, I'm speaking of RINOs as well as Democrats here.

--Jack; 7/11/09, 3:33 PM
Alear said...: Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
-- Winston Churchill

Romney will be our next president. If you wish to change him, do it now, while he's not overly busy. While we all here recognize that tRKoF is the best man for the job, we know that's not gonna happen. Got someone better? I'm influencable, tho not easily. In the meantime, I'll grant that Sarah Palin will be huge in the next election season, we're gonna gain more than a few seats in Congress because of her campaigning for the good guys.

Peace all, and you really don't wanna know the Turing word I've been staring at while writing (OK, I'll tell ya, it's 'goryle').; 7/11/09, 9:23 PM
Rodger the Real King of France said...: Of course Romney is cream and strawberries next to Obama, but if we only replace that regime with another Bush clone, we've learned nothing. It really appears to me that Sarah is in the process of building a new party, and I'm solidly behind her. An amalgam of conservative republicans, democrats, and libertarians. No old faces allowed on the board.; 7/12/09, 1:20 PM
molonlabe28 said...: I agree with you about Mitt Romeny and about Sarah, Rodge.

Romney is a beta male for whom I will not vote under any circumstances.

He is emblamatic of the paucity of core values in the Republican Party.

In the Reagan years, our conservative values dictated our national policies.

For the last 10 years, "practical" pols like Tom Delay and Dennis Hastert had no core values other than getting re-elected.

In addition to doing a terrible job at their one objective and losing power at every level, the Republican Party has no brand appeal.

It looks like a bunch of D.C. functionaries who have lost power and can't figure out why.

The Republican Party has totally betrayed my conservative values and no longer interests me (except at the state level, where Republicans generally behave in a consrvative manner).; 7/12/09, 2:20 PM

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Mitt

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