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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRomney Urged Obama To Embrace Individual Mandate In 2009
Sahil Kapur
In July 2009, Mitt Romney called on President Obama to require Americans to buy insurance as part of his health care plan, using tax penalties as a backstop in other words, the individual mandate that Republicans virulently oppose.
In a USA Today op-ed titled Mr. President, whats the rush?, which is also available on MittRomneyCentral.com, Romney urged Obama to learn a thing or two about health care reform from his Massachusetts plan that contained the same policy, and touted it as effective.
First, we established incentives for those who were uninsured to buy insurance, Romney wrote. 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.
Obama opposed that approach in his 2008 campaign, and was not on board with it at the time of Romneys op-ed, but eventually adopted it in the sweeping bill that became law March 2010. Republican voters strongly decry the mandate as egregious federal overreach, and Romney has vowed to repeal the entire law if elected President.
The revelation could damage the GOP presidential frontrunner, who has been attacked by conservatives for enacting a similar law as Obamacare, but has defended himself by saying such an approach is acceptable on a state level, not a federal level.
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ProSense
(116,464 posts)I can't wait for Mitt's response.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)After that, all he could do was sing the song "Daisy, Daisy". His programmer is running a different system in his head now.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Remember when Captain Kirk talks a robot into melting down by giving it illogical statements?
For someone who is not a true believer trying to follow Wingnut logic will make smoke come out of your ears and trying to stay one step ahead of them is impossible because they're not rational.
That's what's happened to Rmoney, he's basically a rational, if sociopathic, personality and trying to pander non stop to the Republican base with its positively byzantine worldview has let the magic smoke out of his already less than fully implemented personality chip.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)It was an early earth probe sent to study other planets that crashed into an alien probe designed to sanitize planets of harmful bacteria. The two repaired each other and a probe seeking out and destroying illogical and imperfect life forms in the service of mankind ensued. Kirk got the probe to realize that it was itself illogical, imperfect, and harmful and needed to "sanitize" itself.
Romney likewise needs to see that his mission to serve the United States on behalf of a party that doesn't want to serve it and hates the federal government is illogical and he should sanitize himself by withdrawing.
Great analogy you have there.