Romney has pledged to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

[Nye Bevan]

President Obama's campaign commercials on this issue will practically write themselves:

- a 19 year old college student who incurred large medical expenses points out that thanks to the ACA he was able to stay on his parents' health insurance policy until the age of 26, so that his expenses were covered by insurance. He asks why Romney wants to put an end to this.

- someone with a very serious, chronic medical condition thanks Obama for ending lifetime health insurance benefit caps through the ACA. She mentions that her total medical bills have been considerably more than the pre-ACA lifetime benefit cap of $1 million on her policy, and wonders why Romney wants to allow the insurance companies to bring back lifetime benefit caps.

- someone with a serious pre-existing medical condition who was unable to find any health insurance coverage states that thanks to the ACA they were able to obtain insurance through the ACA's high risk pool. He points out that Romney wants to put an end to this, leaving him once again uninsured.

- one of the women who was dropped like a hot potato by the insurance company Wellpoint as soon as she got breast cancer (there are tens of thousands of such women: see http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/04/23/us-wellpoint-breastcancer-idUSTRE63M5D420100423) relates how her coverage was canceled as soon as she got sick, and how she needed to engage in a lengthy legal battle to get her benefits back. She thanks Obama for making this practice ("rescission&quot illegal through the ACA, and expresses disgust that Romney would make it legal again.

I know that "I'm going to end Obamacare" is pure red meat for the right-wing primary voters, but it could easily cost Romney the election.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I hope Obama will make generous use of this.

It will resonate with all but the right-wing primary voters.

[NNN0LHI]

2. Republicans I know would let themselves or their own kids die due to not having insurance ...

... if that would prevent those "other people", from having it. That is the mindset we are up against here.

If we were dealing with rational people the Democratic party would win by a landslide in every election. We are not dealing with rational people though. See the problem?

Don

[Nye Bevan]

4. The Republican primary voters are certainly irrational.

Which is why Romney needs to make such stupid pledges.

But when it comes to the general election, I think there are plenty of moderates who might consider voting Republican, but would be disgusted by the thought of letting insurance companies once again exclude pre-existing conditions, and cancel people's policies when they get sick.

[RKP5637]

5. Yep, excellent analysis! It's like brains, logic and rational thought processes

have fled about 50% of the population. These damn fools think they're fighting something, god knows what, and in reality they are fighting and disadvantaging themselves. And are such tools of the overflowing greed and corruption.

Often I think this is the end result of a gone amuck capitalistic country where greed and corruption rule in a corporatocracy ... and many are used as tools of the corporatocracy, clueless they are working against themselves.

[elleng]

3. As if it were up to him.

Idiot!