suitanim
09-20-2012, 12:25 PM
Since we just can't seem to get past this, let me try this one more (hopefully last) time.
-Romneycare was 70 pages, Obamacare is 2,074 pages long
-R didn't raise Medicare costs, and only raised the state budget by 1%, O will cost at least 500 billion in new taxes, and as we saw in another estimate, may cost private business as much as 1.8 TRILLION each year. Costs are actually unknown.
-R had STRONG bipartisan support, was backed by most special interest groups, and a consensus was built. O had no bipartisan support, it strongly divided special interests, and nobody bothered to try and build consensus.
-R is constitutional, and was not ruled a tax, essentially because this is a states rights issue. O was found constitutional ONLY as a tax, even though it was sold as NOT a tax, even though it really is.
-R was a state solution to a state problem. O is a single state solution that had to be shoehorned into a national need that wasn't met and that it didn't fit.
MOST importantly, Romney's idea was to get PRIVATE health insurance companies involved in insuring the 9% or so of Mass. residents who were uninsured. Obama's plan is a first step towards single-payer government run health care. In this, the two could not be more different.
While I was looking some of this stuff up, I also ran across the exact way Romney plans on repealing Obamacare legally. On day one he would issue a waiver allowing all 50 states to opt out while he works with Congress to formally repeal the bill and to come up with replacement legislation.
-Romneycare was 70 pages, Obamacare is 2,074 pages long
-R didn't raise Medicare costs, and only raised the state budget by 1%, O will cost at least 500 billion in new taxes, and as we saw in another estimate, may cost private business as much as 1.8 TRILLION each year. Costs are actually unknown.
-R had STRONG bipartisan support, was backed by most special interest groups, and a consensus was built. O had no bipartisan support, it strongly divided special interests, and nobody bothered to try and build consensus.
-R is constitutional, and was not ruled a tax, essentially because this is a states rights issue. O was found constitutional ONLY as a tax, even though it was sold as NOT a tax, even though it really is.
-R was a state solution to a state problem. O is a single state solution that had to be shoehorned into a national need that wasn't met and that it didn't fit.
MOST importantly, Romney's idea was to get PRIVATE health insurance companies involved in insuring the 9% or so of Mass. residents who were uninsured. Obama's plan is a first step towards single-payer government run health care. In this, the two could not be more different.
While I was looking some of this stuff up, I also ran across the exact way Romney plans on repealing Obamacare legally. On day one he would issue a waiver allowing all 50 states to opt out while he works with Congress to formally repeal the bill and to come up with replacement legislation.