http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/50161.html
"Mitt Romney is proud of what he accomplished for Massachusetts in getting everyone covered,” Romney’s spokesman, Eric Fehrnstrom, told the Boston Globe, in the first direct response Team Mitt made to Huckabee's criticism of the health plan in his new book.
So there it is. Romney's opinion on health care reform matches that of Obama and the Democrats. He thinks government controlling the health care system is just fine, and forcing people to buy insurance is a great idea.
Of course, he TRIES to draw a line of difference between RomneyCare and ObamaCare.
“What's important now is to return to the states the power to determine their own healthcare solutions by repealing Obamacare," Fehrnstrom added. "A one-size-fits-all plan for the entire nation just doesn't work.”
What Romney misses is that a one-size-fits-all plan doesn't even work for the state of Massachusetts! Whatever happened to the free market and individual rights? Romney's continuing support of RomneyCare shows that he doesn't think much of the whole small-government idea that respects individual freedom. Nope, not at all, because the similarities between RomneyCare and ObamaCare FAR outweigh the differences.
I need no other reasons to know why Romney would make a bad President. He shares Obama's belief in government solutions and government control over free markets; and that's a belief that would transcend the subject of health care and color his policies in other areas.
And that's a BAD thing to have in our next President. Do we REALLY want Obama's policies coming from a Republican President?
I can't speak for you, but I do not.
You took the words right out of my mouth.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't argue with you characterizations of Gov. Romney's postilion on health care except to say that his position is one the Republican Party long held until it became politically expedient to have a different one.
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