Romney: Obama Gives Liberals Too Much Say in Health Care Debate

"If the president wants to get something done, he needs to put aside the extreme liberal wing of his party."

August 20, 2009 at 1:21 pm - CBS News
Dateline: Washington, DC

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kmichaels   August 20th, 2009 - 1:34 pm

So the lady painters husband never had treatment for Cancer while he was still living? Sounds fishy. It is like some idiot saying the other day that Stephen Hawking said that if it were not for NHS (social medicine in England) then he would not be alive today. Hawking did indeed say it, however Hawking had access to private care, and if NHS was not in England he would still have had access to regular doctors and regular hospitals. Hawking is known to say some pretty bizarre things not founded by facts. Using logic, was this ladies husband already treated for Cancer by US doctors? Yes. Would he have died anyway? Yes. Would Hawking have been treated for his chest condition in England even if NHS did not exist in England? Of course. Very possibly even better care than he currently got.

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Magyarfrau   August 20th, 2009 - 3:16 pm

I really don’t think he will ignore his extreme liberal group– he is one of them and they put him in office with the help of Soros, SEIU, Acorn etc. What call in show is Obama on today?? never heard of it. Of course we might hear more of it with the new equality czar. Where was Mitt until today?? Well at least he spoke up now.

mark   August 20th, 2009 - 4:37 pm

Mittler,
The piece-O-crud “healthcare you forced on MA, which is bankrupting the state. You are dead last on anyone’s list to ask about healthcare.

mark   August 20th, 2009 - 4:57 pm

don’t take my word on Mittler’s FIASCO in healthcare in MA

The Right Can Do Better Than Romney
by Gene Healy

Gene Healy is a vice president at the Cato Institute and the author of The Cult of the Presidency.

Added to cato.org on August 12, 2009

This article appeared in the DC Examiner on August 11, 2009.

“In recent months, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has hit the speaking circuit like a man who is determined to be president and knows he needs to get an early start.”
……..
“Romney professes to be appalled by what he calls Obama’s international “tour of apology.” Given Romney’s pernicious influence on the health care debate, maybe he should go on an apology tour himself.

The health care reform package that Romney signed as Massachusetts governor in 2006 sought to provide universal coverage with a combination of individual and employer mandates and state subsidies.

Three years later, we have a record, and, as my colleague Mike Tanner demonstrates in a recent Cato study, it’s nothing for Romney to be proud of. Despite fee increases and a cigarette tax increase — and despite the fact that most of MassCare’s costs are off-budget, imposed on the private sector — the program’s costs have grown much faster than projected, making up nearly one-third of Massachusetts’ projected $1.3 billion 2009 deficit.

With health care costs skyrocketing, and insurance premiums rising at double the national average, “the state is considering caps on insurance premiums, cuts in reimbursements to providers, and even the possibility of a ‘global budget’ on health care spending.”

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10434

LET US KEEP OUR OWN DOLLARS & PAY FOR OUR OWN CARE   August 20th, 2009 - 5:23 pm

WHY DO WE EVEN NEED A HEALTH CARE PLAN? WHY CAN’T AMERICANS JUST KEEP THEIR OWN MONEY AND PAY FOR THEIR OWN MEDICAL CARE, INSTEAD OF GIVING IT ALL TO THE GOVT. TO PISS AWAY?

CRACK DOWN ON EXORBITANT MEDICAL COSTS AND LEAVE THE PATIENTS ALONE, AND THAT GOES FOR OUR MEDICAL RECORDS AS WELL. LEAVE THEM ALONE.

LET US KEEP OUR OWN DOLLARS & PAY FOR OUR OWN CARE   August 20th, 2009 - 5:24 pm

WHY DO WE EVEN NEED A HEALTH CARE PLAN? WHY CAN’T AMERICANS JUST KEEP THEIR OWN MONEY AND PAY FOR THEIR OWN MEDICAL CARE, INSTEAD OF GIVING IT ALL TO THE GOVT. TO PI$$ AWAY?

CRACK DOWN ON EXORBITANT MEDICAL COSTS AND LEAVE THE PATIENTS ALONE, AND THAT GOES FOR OUR MEDICAL RECORDS AS WELL. LEAVE THEM ALONE.

Eileen for Freedom/Liberty   August 20th, 2009 - 11:09 pm

America…Bilderberg Bush-Obama doesn’t have an idea of his own!

He reads prompters with words others give him, he takes orders from the Bilderberg Society telling him how to destroy America from within!

He is a phony…this little boy is playing house…White House!

He has been there 7 months and had more vacations with his family then my family has in 10 years.

Because he works so hard? Not at all…he doesn’t work…he is a puppet…he doesn’t have to think…he just follows orders…so he has plenty of time to golf, play basketball, and take vacations…on our dime!

The puppetmaster does the work…the Bilderberg Society dictates what he does and what he says.

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THE REVOLUTION OF THE SILENT MAJORITY – SILENT NO MORE!

1. GETTING INFORMED
2. GETTING INVOLVED

DON’T TREAD ON US…WE PAY YOUR BILLS IN WASHINGTON AND IN YOUR HOMES WHERE YOU WILL ALL BE GOING STARTING IN 2010 AND BEYOND…GUARANTEED!

mark   August 21st, 2009 - 4:43 pm

Why do we build roads, or pay for an Army?
Plow your own way across the country, and protect your own land.
Why should we educate your kids, or give them school lunches?
Teach and feed them yourselves.
Why build hospitals, hospices, or pay seniors to be old?
Get some bandaids, and keep grandma in the spare bedroom.

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