Obamacare Decision: Romney Won't Like This Passage

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Article in Mother Jones discussing the opinion by Ruth Bader Ginsburg virtually crediting Romney for Obama's victory. Freeper heads will explode if they read this language.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/06/supreme-court-congress-followed-massachusetts-lead

Obamacare Decision: Romney Won't Like This Passage

By requiring most residents to obtain insurance, see Mass. Gen. Laws, ch. 111M, §2 (West 2011), the Commonwealth ensured that insurers would not be left with only the sick as customers. As a result, federal lawmakers observed, Massachusetts succeeded where other States had failed. See Brief for Commonwealth of Massachusetts as Amicus Curiae in No. 11–398, p. 3 (not­ing that the Commonwealth’s reforms reduced the number of uninsured residents to less than 2%, the lowest rate in the Nation, and cut the amount of uncompensated care by a third); 42 U. S. C. §18091(2)(D) (2006 ed., Supp. IV) (noting the success of Massachusetts’ reforms). In cou­pling the minimum coverage provision with guaranteed­ issue and community-rating prescriptions, Congress followed Massachusetts' lead.

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1. 'Ginsburg, of course, is completely correct.

And in a sane political climate, Mitt Romney would happily take credit for this. As it stands, he's in the uncomfortable position of once more distancing himself from his biggest political accomplishment.'

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2. Mitt Romney Haunted By Past Of Trying To Help Uninsured Sick People

BELMONT, MA—Though Mitt Romney is considered to be a frontrunner for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, the national spotlight has forced him to repeatedly confront a major skeleton in his political closet: that as governor of Massachusetts he once tried to help poor, uninsured sick people.

Romney, who signed the state's 2006 health care reform act, has said he "deeply regrets" giving people in poor physical and mental health the opportunity to seek medical attention, admitting that helping very sick people get better remains a dark cloud hovering over his political career, and his biggest obstacle to becoming president of the United States of America.

"Every day I am haunted by the fact that I gave impoverished Massachusetts citizens a chance to receive health care," Romney told reporters Wednesday, adding that he feels ashamed whenever he looks back at how he forged bipartisan support to help uninsured Americans afford medicine to cure their illnesses. "I'm only human, and I've made mistakes. None bigger, of course, than helping cancer patients receive chemotherapy treatments and making sure that those suffering from pediatric AIDS could obtain medications, but that's my cross to bear."

"My hope is that Republican voters will one day forgive me for making it easier for sick people—especially low-income sick people—to go to the hospital and see a doctor," Romney added. "It was wrong, and I'm sorry."

Read more: http://www.theonion.com/articles/mitt-romney-haunted-by-past-of-trying-to-help-unin,20097/

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3. I explained this to some freeper-types on the non-FR site I troll

If Mitt Romney had taken full credit for the plan - and let's be frank, he could make a legitimate case for doing so - he could very well give Obama a real run for his money in November. It's just that big a "thing."

Instead he decided to pander to the basest of his base, and join the screeching idiots who are pissed BECAUSE DEMOCRAT!!!!!

As I told them, as a result, Romney's feet are now more bullet hole than foot.