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Romney Vows To Grant All States Waivers For ObamaCare On Day 1. WSJ: RomneyCare Was An AbominationA little preview of Mitt's big healtcare speech in USA Today. But our health care system has several well-known problems: high and rising costs, significant numbers of Americans without insurance, and glaring gaps in quality and efficiency. Follow the link for how he'd approach the issue. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal would like to have a word not just about Romney's Massachusetts plan but also would like to know what the hell he was thinking in the first place. First the mandates. In a debate in 2007 Romney said, "I like mandates. The mandates work". As the WSJ demonstrates, no they don't. In the name of personal responsibility, Mr. Romney also introduced the individual mandate, first in the nation, requiring everyone to buy coverage or else pay a penalty. Free riders, he said, transferred their own costs to others, either through higher premiums or taxes. This is the same argument the Obama Administration is now using to justify the coercion of the individual mandate in the federal courts. Because the states have police powers under the Constitution, Mr. Romney's plan posed no legal problems. His blunder was his philosophy of government. Then they really get tough on him. The Romney camp blames all this on a failure of execution, not of design. But by this cause-and-effect standard, Mr. Romney could push someone out of an airplane and blame the ground for killing him. Once government takes on the direct or implicit liability of paying for health care for everyone, the only way to afford it is through raw political control of all medical decisions. And then they go in for the kill. Seriously, it's a brutal take down. For most politically active conservatives and Republicans (political blog readers for example) at this point you either buy Mitt's, "it's ok if states do mandates but not the federal government" explanation or you don't. My fear is that if Mitt is the nominee health care will either not be part of the debate or Obama will be able to paint Romney as the father of ObamaCare. Repealing HCR isn't likely to be the number one issue next year (the economy, the economy and the economy will bet the top 3 issues) but it should be in our arsenal. I'm not sure how Mitt can convincingly make the case. | Recent Comments
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