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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS...s-massachusetts-health-plan/story?id=16969425
Romney Pivots, Embraces Romneycare Again
Excerpt from link:
But as much as the news cycle has spun on the idea that Saul somehow slipped and lost the narrative thread, recent statements (and some from a bit further back) from Romney on health care policy and overhaul indicate that the former Massachusetts governor might be trying to take some air out the issue.
Romney spoke Wednesday about health care in Des Moines, Iowa. One could be forgiven for thinking he sounded like a candidate who has grown increasingly reluctant to dismiss his most significant and successful public policy achievement.
"At the top of my list of programs we don't need is one that costs $100 billion a year I'm going to get rid of and that's Obamacare," he said to cheers at a rally.
But then he made a telling pivot. "And by the way," he added, "that doesn't mean that health care is perfect. We've got to do reforms in health care and I have some experience doing that, as you know. And I know how to make a better setting than the one we have in health care."
Cliffs: Romney has realized that much of the individual parts of Obamacare are very highly supported. So he is now he is saying they were his ideas and he will replace Obamacare with his health care plan. He says he knows about how to do this because he did such a good job on Romneycare when he was in Mass.
This should be interesting. The fact is that the things people really like, for instance the no preexisting exlusions, are possible due to the individual mandate, which apparently Romney will oppose.
Its actually quite brilliant. Offering all the popular parts of Obamacare and saying he will get rid of the bad parts. Of course, the "bad parts" are what make it work and without them there is no chance of doing anything else.
Romney Pivots, Embraces Romneycare Again
Excerpt from link:
But as much as the news cycle has spun on the idea that Saul somehow slipped and lost the narrative thread, recent statements (and some from a bit further back) from Romney on health care policy and overhaul indicate that the former Massachusetts governor might be trying to take some air out the issue.
Romney spoke Wednesday about health care in Des Moines, Iowa. One could be forgiven for thinking he sounded like a candidate who has grown increasingly reluctant to dismiss his most significant and successful public policy achievement.
"At the top of my list of programs we don't need is one that costs $100 billion a year I'm going to get rid of and that's Obamacare," he said to cheers at a rally.
But then he made a telling pivot. "And by the way," he added, "that doesn't mean that health care is perfect. We've got to do reforms in health care and I have some experience doing that, as you know. And I know how to make a better setting than the one we have in health care."
Cliffs: Romney has realized that much of the individual parts of Obamacare are very highly supported. So he is now he is saying they were his ideas and he will replace Obamacare with his health care plan. He says he knows about how to do this because he did such a good job on Romneycare when he was in Mass.
This should be interesting. The fact is that the things people really like, for instance the no preexisting exlusions, are possible due to the individual mandate, which apparently Romney will oppose.
Its actually quite brilliant. Offering all the popular parts of Obamacare and saying he will get rid of the bad parts. Of course, the "bad parts" are what make it work and without them there is no chance of doing anything else.
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