Mitt Romney Romney says he won't repeal all of Obamacare

[rockerrockstar]

"WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitt Romney says his pledge to repeal President Barack Obama's health law doesn't mean that young adults and those with medical conditions would no longer be guaranteed health care.
The Republican presidential nominee says he'll replace the law with his own plan. He tells NBC's "Meet the Press" that the plan he worked to pass while governor of Massachusetts deals with medical conditions and with young people.
Romney says he doesn't plan to repeal of all of Obama's signature health care plan. He says there are a number of initiatives he likes in the Affordable Care Act that he would keep in place if elected president.
Obama has been campaigning on the benefits in his plan for the uninsured, women and young adults."-

http://news.yahoo.com/romney-says-wont-repeal-obamacare-130334655--election.html

 

[Cody1]

HAHAH, i'm posting this article on other mainstreamer's walls right now.

I take bitter solace in the fact that consistency and truth always wins in the end.

In the face of jeers and insults I told many of them during the primaries that he wasn't seriously going to do a damn thing about repealing that trash bill, we're halfway there now!

 

[KEEF]

Tweet! Tweet!

https://twitter.com/G_fasciatus/status/244846902997303296

and

https://twitter.com/G_fasciatus/status/244847023830994946

 

[Bruno]

Pretty sure he said that in a few debates, though tip-toeing around it until he was nominated.

 

[alucard13mmfmj]

Good job republicans. Good job.

I bet he won't even repeal any of it if he gets the presidency.

I find it funny that Romney makes Ron Paul's delegate sign a pledge to vote for him... while Obama and Romney makes pledges and doesn't follow through with it. lolololol.

 

[erowe1]

If there's a Republican Senate, then we should push hard for Congress to pass a full repeal of Obamacare to send to Romney and either make him sign it or veto it.

 

[low preference guy]

etch-a-sketch

 

[acptulsa]

Romney's not even trying to win this thing. What a joke. Whenever a less popular position is available to him, so far he has taken it every time. It's like he knows he'll lose, so he's just trying to lose the nickname Flip Flopney. He wants to say later, if I'm such a flip flopper why did I take the most unpopular side of every issue?

 

[emazur]

Pretty sure he said that in a few debates, though tip-toeing around it until he was nominated.

It goes back earlier than that to 2010:
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnew...re-in-2010-“repeal-the-bad-and-keep-the-good”

Klein, however, is specifically reacting to video of an April 2010 Romney appearance that has recently resurfaced on YouTube. In the video Romney compares and contrasts the healthcare plan he signed into law as Governor of Massachusetts with the one President Barack Obama approved shortly before this appearance. He ends by saying that he wants “to eliminate some of the differences, repeal the bad, and keep the good” in ObamaCare.

 

[ctiger2]

If you haven't figured out by now, everything Mitt Romney does or says is for political expediency to gain power. It's the reason he flip/flops on all these issues. HE HAS NO VALUES OR PRINCIPLES WHICH HE ADHERES TO, NONE.

 

[Brett85]

Geez, it looks like everyone here was right about Romney. He's not even good from a mainstream conservative perspective.

 

[Brett85]

If you haven't figured out by now, everything Mitt Romney does or says is for political expediency to gain power.

Then he should advocate withdrawing from Afghanistan, since 65% of Americans support that.

 

[alucard13mmfmj]

So are republican talk show/radio hosts talking about this? Seems like a big deal. One of the GOP's main issue is to get rid of Obamacare.

*grabs popcorn for obama/romney debate*

 

[TheFreeEconomy]

Suprise suprise. It's absolutely laughable how Mitt Romney bamboozled much of the Republican base into voting for him even though he had no credibility whatsoever when it comes to healthcare mandates (among other things).

 

[DavidK]

The author of Obamacare is admitting he likes his own plan, I would have never guessed.

 

[RickyJ]

If there's a Republican Senate, then we should push hard for Congress to pass a full repeal of Obamacare to send to Romney and either make him sign it or veto it.

There will be a Republican senate I think, but Romney won't be president, Obama will win this one. Romney is practically falling on his sword now.

 

[low preference guy]

There will be a Republican senate I think, but Romney won't be president, Obama will win this one. Romney is practically falling on his sword now.

so pretty much gridlock? could be a lot worse.

 

[RickyJ]

Geez, it looks like everyone here was right about Romney. He's not even good from a mainstream conservative perspective.

What? You didn't believe us?

 

[rambone]

Anybody who has bothered to vet this candidate has seen that he's been devoted to government controlled, mandated health care for almost 20 years.

1994, October 17

Romney campaigned for U.S. Senate pushing the idea of universal health care. "I'm convinced every American deserves coverage, and we're only going to really solve the spiraling rise of health care costs if everybody is part of a health care system."
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1994, October 25

During a debate with his friend Ted Kennedy, Mitt Romney says he favors Universal Coverage at a Federal level, including Federal subsidies, telling insurance companies they may not charge more for preexisting conditions, and prohibiting "discrimination in rates between big companies and small companies."
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2006:

Romney campaigned for his Massachusetts plan, calling mandated insurance "the personal responsibility principle."
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2006, March:

And again at a press conference, Romney says he is "very pleased" with the mandate, which he interchangeably calls the "personal responsibility principle."
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2006, April 7

Romney personally lobbied reluctant members of Massachusetts Congress to support the bill. Councilman Chris Anderson said that Romney persuaded him, "The bill could be a national model if implemented properly."

Romney also was personally very committed and involved with negotiations to pass the health care bill, emails revealed.
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2006, April 12

Romney signs the first ever state-mandated health care law at Faneuil in Boston. The late Sen. Edward Kennedy pats Romney on the back during the signing ceremony, which was complete with near-presidential theatrics, banners, printed t-shirts, and a fife-and-drum corps playing the fanfare. Romney called his healthcare takeover a "once in a generation" achievement, saying that "Massachusetts is leading the way."​

Ted Kennedy praised Romney for giving the state ''just what the doctor ordered." The plan was also praised by Hillary Clinton and John Kerry. Romney gushed over Ted Kennedy at his signatory speech, calling Kennedy his "collaborator and friend" and saying he was "absolutely essential" to creating the law.
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2006, June:

The day of the signing ceremony, the proud father of Romneycare told Fox News that he authored it himself. Later, he told Newsweek that the bill "incorporates 95% of my original proposal."
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2006, October:

Romney proudly announced the introduction of another tax-subsidized health care entitlement in Massachusetts, "Commonwealth Care." The plan not only paid for subsidized abortions, but it mandated that one member of the Policy Board be appointed by Planned Parenthood of Massachusetts.​

 

[rambone]

2007, April:

It is revealed that prior to the passage of the Massachusetts health care law, Mitt Romney gave a $25,000 donation to the Heritage Foundation, which ended up being one of the only conservative channels speaking positively of his plan.
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2007, August 5

Romney again advocated for health care mandates at the Federal level.

"Look, it's critical to insure more people in this country. It doesn't make sense to have 45 million people without insurance. It's not good for them because they don't get good preventative care and disease management, just as these folks have spoken about. But it's not good for the rest of the citizens either, because if people aren't insured, they go to the emergency room for their care when they get very sick. That's expensive. They don't have any insurance to cover it [...]

We have to have our citizens insured, and we're not going to do that by tax exemptions, because the people that don't have insurance aren't paying taxes. What you have to do is what we did in Massachusetts. Is it perfect? No. But we say, let's rely on personal responsibility, help people buy their own private insurance, get our citizens insured, not with a government takeover, not with new taxes needed, but instead with a free-market based system that gets all of our citizens in the system. No more free rides. It works."
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2007:

Romney: The Individual Mandate Is "Ultimate Conservatism"
"When they show up at the hospital, they get care, they get free care, paid for by you and me. If that's not a form of socialism, I don't know what is. So my plan did something quite different. It said, you know what, if people can afford to buy insurance, if they can afford to buy insurance, or if they can pay their own way, then they either buy that insurance or pay their own way, but they no longer look to government to hand out free care. And that, in my opinion, is ultimate conservatism. That's why the Heritage Foundation worked with us and was at the celebration of the signing. The Heritage Foundation, as you know, a quintessentially conservative group, recognized that the principles of free enterprise and personal responsibility were at work. And I'm proud to talk about what we did. We did not need to raise taxes. We did not need to have the government take over health care. Instead, we rely on private market dynamics to get people in our state insured and for individuals to finally take responsibility for some portion of their health care rather than expecting government to give them a free ride."
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2009, March

Romney went on Meet the Press and said that the correct plan for the nation is to follow the Massachusetts model.
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2009, July 30

Romney wrote an op-ed article for USA Today, urging President Obama to follow his Massachusetts plan on the nation.

"Our experience also demonstrates that getting every citizen insured doesn't have to break the bank. First, we established incentives for those who were uninsured to buy insurance. Using tax penalties, as we did, or tax credits, as others have proposed, encourages "free riders" to take responsibility for themselves rather than pass their medical costs on to others."
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2009

Romney appeared on The Early Show and said he was "glad" that Obama was copying his Massachusetts plan of mandated/subsidized insurance.
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2009

Three of Mitt Romney’s advisers went to the White House at least a dozen times in 2009 to consult on the former Massachusetts governor’s health care plan that President Obama used as a model for his initiative -- now a federal law that all the Republican presidential candidates want to repeal.
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2010, April

Romney says "repeal the bad and keep the good" in reference to Obamacare. He says that he likes "incentives" (aka mandates) and government preventing companies from denying anyone.
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2011, November

Romney stands by his mandated insurance plan at any cost. “I’m standing by what I did in Massachusetts,” Romney said on Fox News Channel’s Special Report with Bret Baier. “I’m not trying to dust it aside. I’m absolutely firm that it was the right thing for our state. I’ll defend that and I understand it has political implications. And if it keeps me from winning a primary, so be it. But that happens to be the truth.”
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2011, December

Romney again touts his individual mandate as a "fundamentally conservative principle."
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2012

Romney campaigns with the platform of "Repeal and Replace Obamacare."
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2012, September

Romney affirms he will keep the mandates of Obamacare, if in fact anything is ever repealed.
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