I’m stunned!! ::rolling eyes::

This keeps it super simple – Joe and Jane Q Public, why does your Democratic Congressman/Senator not want to subect themselves to the same kind of program that they want to place you under? Run it again and again and again.

Simple.Easy.Brilliant!!

The “Romneycare” program’s problems are a result of more people becoming eligible for the program’s subsidized insurance and a reduction in rate payers. As more people lose their jobs in MA, the income levels of those people go below the 300% FPL level threashold to receive the state subsidy. The state subsidy is to buy private insurance through the health exchange. The revenues they expected from the “willingly uninsured” have been lower than the forecast. No doubt some of those people moved to NH or RI or just payed the $900.00, which is a small penalty.
Are they more people in MA receiving healthcare because of this plan?Yes, that was the idea behind the program. What isn’t happening with “:Romneycare” is that employers dumping their employees for a public option. The only public options in MA are Medicaid, SCHIP and Medicare. I have not heard of any hospitals in MA closing. MA has some of the best hospitals in the country.

What will Romney do? I can only guess he is waiting for the final bill in Congress to be signed into law.Unlike Hillary, Obama wants victory on this and he will get a bill. If the final bill has a public option and it decimates the private insurance market, “Romneycare” will look good by comparison and he will claim as he always has, that his plan was about private insurance. If “Obamacare” looks like “Romneycare” Romney will have to move to the right of Obama and claim “Romneycare” to be a failure if he wants to be credible in 2012.

“Over the past few weeks, members of Congress and the American people have come to know the details of the Administration’s proposed health care plan. Call it whatever you like, this proposal is nothing more than government-run health care. As a physician, I am amazed at the number of bureaucrats in this House who are quick to claim a government-run health care plan is the reform this country needs. In response to this, I have offered a resolution that will offer members of Congress an opportunity to put their money where their mouth is, and urge their colleagues who vote for legislation creating a government-run health care plan to lead by example and enroll themselves in the same public plan.

Under the current draft of the Democrat healthcare legislation, members of Congress are curiously exempt from the government-run health care option, keeping their existing health plans and services on Capitol Hill. If Members of Congress believe so strongly that government-run health care is the best solution for hard working American families, I think it only fitting that Americans see them lead the way. Public servants should always be accountable and responsible for what they are advocating, and I challenge the American people to demand this from their representatives.

If you agree with me, sign our online petition and together we will work to ensure that any plan that is good enough for American families is good enough for every member of Congress.”

Video here:

http://www.fleming.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=24&sectiontree=23,24&itemid=193

An example was the Bush administration going after states that voted for medical marijuana.

The hope lies in what ColdWarrior has been preaching ad nauseum for weeks – get involved at the precinct level. The MN GOP just elected two 3-legged stool conservatives to be chair & vice-chair of the party. Both were anathema to the ‘moderate’ blue-bloods who are known to never duck a fight when they have the chance (the vice-chair runs a blog entitled “Minnesota Democrats Exposed” but the both won on the first ballot. I guarantee you that when I, a county delegate, was voting for our reps to the state convention, I *knew* candidates were supportive of whom for those 2 slots and voted accordingly.

The only way we stop this madness is from the bottom up ’cause w/the exception of Coburn, DeMint, Shaddeg and a few others, it ain’t gonna come from the top down.

Or, as one of our fearless leaders says as his tag line: We *are* the cavalry!

The biggest winner was Reagan. Bob Dole and McCain the biggest Rinos were the biggest losers.

The Republican leadership wants to continue to serve big business and get wealthy serving the big government big business alliance.

Also, they are desperate for the Media’s approval.

The last thing on the earth they want to do is shrink government.

The biggest winner was Reagan. Bob Dole and McCain the biggest Rinos were the biggest losers.

The Republican leadership wants to continue to serve big business and get wealthy serving the big government big business alliance.

Also, they are desperate for the Media’s approval.

The last thing on the earth they want to do is shrink government.

Despite what the media had it not been for Palin, McCain would have lost by more because so many more conservatives would have stayed home.

And Senator McConnell would probably be former Senator and there probably be dozen or more addtional Democrat reps.

Romney still brags about it …!

And that is just one of many reasons why I say that John McCain may very well have been the most conservative of the major Republican Presidential candidates in 2008. Yuck!

I do not like John McCain and yes, my stomach is turning.

But you know what … the “mainstream” of the Republican Party is probably worse.

This issue *alone* is why it baffles me that Mitt is … seen by some as the ‘conservative savior’ for the ‘12 elections (it even supercedes his multiple conservative conversions in the year leading up to the primaries)

eburke, I agree.

And that is why I say that the real problem America is now facing is not that Barack Obama and most of the Democrats are socialists. The real problem we are facing is that many so-called conseravtives are not any better. “We” want socialism, too. We just want it enacted by those with an “(R)” behind their names.

Cept, with auto insurance people aren’t going to increase the number of car accidents voluntarily for an all you can crash auto insurance program. Car accidents hurt. Therein lies the difference.

On the contrary, with health insurance you are incentivised to get your money’s worth.

Will someone show me anyone who forks over $29.95 for a buffet that doesn’t indulge? It’s human nature.

Why O why can’t our over-educamated leaders make these simple points?

Sad truth is they won’t sell out RomenyCare because Romeny is more important to them than the country is.

As someone noted upthread, he will have to issue a mea culpa of *immense* proportions re: this debacle for me to even give him a serious look. Considering that as recently as a year ago he was touting it as an example of his leadership skills and business acumen, I shan’t commence holding my breath.

Unlike so many others were he can say I had to because its a liberal state,
Romney hammered it thru.

So he has to be held account.

And of course there is the little matter that he has been liberal and conservative on almost every major issue not just abortion and gay rights, but illegal immigration, taxes, spending etc….

He also supported TARP.

Romney is part of the big government unreformed Bush crowd.

We have to face the reality that we have to fight to take the Republican away from the big government types and that it will not be easy.

Acting like only Democrats can be bad will not move the country forward.

The fact that Obama is the worst President ever does not make any of Bush’s wrongs right.