TO ijusluvit


A little bit more on healthcare if you will.

This was in your note on healthc care...

"We both know this and that there will have to be changes to make things work better in the future. The big difference between us is that you don't trust Obama. Therefore you reject ACA. I don't feel that distrust, so I don't have to immediately dislike the idea and basics of ACA. After looking hard at it, I am willing to support it as a desperately needed foundation. "

I will accept that statement as your true feelings, but would like to add....I have been reading and trying to understand if Romney Care is just like Obama care and it is not.....in my little "library" of saved items there was an article in the American Spectator on the subject during the campaign. I went a bit further after reading it because American Spectator is a conservative item, and read a bit in the Boston Herald archives, as far back as possible to insure the heart of the article was valid.....

In any case...this ruling is JUST A FOUNDATION for the future..this is what Obama said in 2003,,,,, "I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care plan." That is what he said...now I know that I posted videos where he said other things about it, but that is Obama.
He is also quoted "I have not said that I was a single-payer supporter because, frankly, we historically have had a employer-based system in this country with private insurers, and for us to transition to a system like that I believe would be too disruptive." Hard to keep up I know.

In any case, THAT was his motivation.

Romney had an entirely different motivation.....His goal was to involve the private sector of Massachusetts in insuring a small percentage of the Massachusetts' healthcare pie.

"Romney took on the uninsured in Massachusetts, working with both parties in Boston, he did so with the blessing of the Heritage Foundation. The idea was, essentially, people who were getting a free ride with respect to their healthcare would now have to pay. No more getting healthcare for free. This time you had to pony up some cash or buy insurance from a private carrier. The Heritage Foundation, a longstanding bastion of Conservatism, thought it bold, conservative thinking as they helped to craft its design.

From a Heritage Foundation article on Romney's plan in 2006:

… to allow people to go without health insurance, and then when they do fall ill expect someone else to pay the tab for their treatment is a de facto mandate on providers and taxpayers. Romney proposes to take that option off the table, leaving only two choices: Either buy insurance or pay for your own care. Not an unreasonable position, and one that is clearly consistent with conservative values."

The American Spectator : Obamacare vs. Romneycare -- A Crucial Difference

Romney never had the intention of this President. I think it could have been done a bit better personally, but they are different.

I really hope they keep railing on this and Romney "clears the air" in the debates so everyone can see it.

Just wanting to add some more for your consideration and look forward to your replies. I have all the details to back up what I have been saying and what I say now, but nobody who supports Obama wants to hear anything but praise for him so I keep it short believe it or not.

Those who make those little tweet type remarks on here will never read this because they do not care...to them, this is all a game instead of our and our childrens future !