Romney might not be able to live this down....

[UConn James]

Mitt Romney's Health Care Advantage? : "RomneyCare" shouldn't be a liability in 2012. It should be an asset. Here's why.

 

Much-needed clarification on how Romney's input averted a fiscal disaster for small businesses in Mass., and the HUGE differences b/w the Mass. situation vs. the nation's.

 

1. Mass. had a low % of uninsured, high incomes, and has the infrastructure to handle it.

2. Instead of taxing small businesses, as the MA legislature was intent on, Romney's plan put the onus on people to make better choices and use primary/preventative care rather than ERs.

3. Costs have not skyrocketed (and some reasons for the 1% increase are due to the Patrick admin).

4. Romney wiped out a $3B budget shortfall --- and created a $600M surplus --- before health care was broached.

5. Romney does not advocate one-size-fits-all strategy. He says that each state should do, or not do, what makes the most sense for that state.

 

There's no reason this should off-put Republicans who actually look at the facts, rather than spew about anything that touches the subject of health care.

Edited May 18, 2011 by UConn James

[IDBillzFan]

There's no reason this should off-put Republicans who actually look at the facts, rather than spew about anything that touches the subject of health care.

Romney's problem isn't going to be Republicans. It's going to be Independents. And even then, it's no more Romney's problem than it is Obama's.

 

The problem with the 2012 election is it stands to replicate the 2008 election in which people weren't voting for Obama as much as they were voting against Bush. That's not a reason to elect someone, and yet here we go again, with people not gearing up to vote for Romney so much as they're eager to vote against Obama.