This was one of my questions about a Romney presidency. He’d stated obamacare would go, Day One. But to date I’d not heard him speak of his plans for healthcare. Granted, this is not detailed, but it is revealing.
Say hello to Romneycare?
But the healthcare page on Romney’s site states that he will ‘pursue policies’ that give the states the power to create their own plans, not that he will institute one.
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On his first day in office, Mitt Romney will issue an executive order that paves the way for the federal government to issue Obamacare waivers to all fifty states. He will then work with Congress to repeal the full legislation as quickly as possible.
In place of Obamacare, Mitt will pursue policies that give each state the power to craft a health care reform plan that is best for its own citizens. The federal government’s role will be to help markets work by creating a level playing field for competition.
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MittRomney.com:
Romneycare or state controlled healthcare or… I’m so freaking confused. Will he or will he not beat obamacare back into the hell hole from which it issued?
I kind of like letting each state handle their own. Here in Texas that would be an inexpensive thing covering catastrophic care. Other states would be free to be more lavish, assuming the can somehow pay for it. Then, of course, the freeloaders will flock to the more lavish states, freeing us to finish digging ourselves out of the hole.
The first law of holes is to stop digging, of course. Yet when we find ourselves in a hole too deep to climb out, we must then dig steps. We are five or six generations into this hole, we aren’t getting out in a month. I sometimes fear we’re already past the possibility of digging steps. I have been damning LBJ since the sixties. I am proud to say that I pee’d on his grave. I will probably have to get some grandsons to pee on Obama.
You know, when I started blogging 11 years ago, it was an attempt at better understanding the world – well, mostly politics. And it’s helped. A LOT. But I’m constantly running up against the wall of my own limitations to comprehend this stuff.
I’m just saying that if you feel like you’ve tried to explain something for the 10th time and are becoming frustrated… it’s appreciated. At least know that. And I will get it.
“I will probably have to get some grandsons to pee on Obama.”
I’d put that in my will, Peter.
Well, there IS that boy that can’t wait to grow up strong enough to handle my ’92 Winchester clone. I’ll make a will like that in Gran Torino: And to William, my ’92 clone, provided he not put any silly lasers or scopes or all that tacticool crap on it and that he go pee on Obama’s grave.
Oh, and GET OFF MY LAWN!
I love that movie.
Don’t trust him on it. Just don’t. But O hole has got to go
O does have to go; on that we are united!