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Originally Posted by Pressing-On
Romneycare and Obamacare
A distinction without a difference
The Massachusetts Health Connector Plan (aka Romneycare), like Obamacare, had the stated goal of addressing escalating health-care costs and reducing the number of uninsured people. Now, after five years in existence, the Romney health-care overhaul has failed to bring costs down, and it has also failed to increase the number of people with private insurance. As a direct consequence of Romneycare’s intrusive meddling in the private health-insurance market, health-care costs have skyrocketed in the state. Massachusetts has the highest average health-care premiums in the nation, with per capita spending 27 percent higher than the national average. Overall health-care costs in the state continue to rise at an average rate of 8 percent annually. And of the approximate 383,000 newly insured Massachusetts residents, the vast majority are enrolled in a state-run entitlement program. A shortage of providers, combined with increased demand, is increasing waiting times to see a physician. As recently as 2009, 56 percent of internal-medicine doctors no longer accepted new patients in Massachusetts.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...rick-santorum#
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Let me add The Cato Institutes opinion.
http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_repo...cpr30n1-1.html
So he promises to repeal a healthcare plan patterned after his own plan? Ha ha ha!
I still want to know how he plans to repeal something in one day that Congress legislated!
If he succeeds, then doesn't that make him a <gasp> dictator bypassing Congress?
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