RomneyCare & ObamaCare
Heather Higgins ·
Jan 29 at 10:16pm
Outstanding piece by Grace-Marie Turner in the Wall Street Journal, elaborating on the point Rick Santorum made in Thursday's debate about the similarities between the Massachusetts plan and PPACA.
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May '10
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It seems to be behind a paywall, unless I'm doing something wrong.
Oct '10
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Indeed.
Perhaps Rupert could arrange a special Ricochet tunnel under it...
Jul '10
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Not only does the article provide backing for Santorum's points, but picks apart Romney's disingenuous defense that RomneyCare did not raise taxes (it dumped Massachusetts' families out of private insurance and onto the Medicaid rolls, raising federal expenditures born by the entire country and creating untold tragedies as patient and doctor directed health care was replaced by government-directed health care with a felony speech law kicker for health providers.
Since these shifts affected less well-off, savvy, and articulate segments of the population, Romney expects his claims to stand unrepudiated. This is the kind of flim-flam that makes every national endorser from politicians to pundits smell bad. The carefully crafted image of Romney as a good and honest man vanishes like a morning mist in the blaze of day.
Romney will not be president, and his machinations are a stain on an already shamelessly bespattered GOP.
Mr. Murdoch, please! If anything belongs outside the pay wall it is this piece.
Edited on Jan 30 at 1:27amOct '10
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Try this link (which worked for me).
Jul '10
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So he really does read Ricochet!
Sep '10
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That was an eye opening read. Thanks for mentioning this Heather.
Sep '10
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Heather. Grace's other article in the American Spectator, "Obama's Strategy of Silence," September 2011 http://spectator.org/archives/2011/09/12/obamas-strategy-of-silence
dovetails nicely with this. Obama does not want to talk about it, but if he has to then Romneycare saves him.
Why can't Mitt just say that it was an experiment that failed and that is why he wants Obamacare repealed?
May '10
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I still get a pay wall.
Oct '10
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Mark Wilson
I still get a pay wall. · 27 minutes ago
Me too, now (some hours later). But if you search for 'Scoring Last Week's RomneyCare Debate' on Google, the link there seems to work. (Or perhaps it's some strange cache effect.)
Rupert, you don't have to read the previous paragraph...