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DesideriScuri -> RE: Hillary's ObamaCare Takeover (10/29/2016 10:28:46 AM)
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ORIGINAL: epiphiny43
ACA was mostly a direct copy of the Mass. health care insurance put in place by a REPUBLICAN governor most of us have heard of, a Mr. Romney. Obama quickly got educated that a Republican plan backed by a Dem POTUS instantly became a Socialist Plot, and in the process of getting approved, got a Webster's Unabridged size amount of messy compromises and poison pill provisions that nobody yet fully understands. And it probably would have been a lot better, but the last Dem holdout to put the vote over the top, Sen. Lieberman, refused to vote for the ACA unless the 'Single Payer (Public) Option' was removed. This didn't make the system a single payer system, but would have set up as one option a 'company' that would have had a different pricing and profit motive, keeping the corporate options 'honest', i.e., less profitable and more in line with actual costs. Obama didn't have the 'cloakroom' brass knuckle skills of Pres. Johnson, developed over decades keeping the House Dems in line, and caved on the single most important part of an affordable health care system.
No one here doesn't know Romney was a Republican governor of Massachusetts when this passed. Der.
The Mass. legislature, however, wasn't even close to being Republican. The Senate was 34-6 (D-R) and the House was 139-20-1 (D-R-I). Romney vetoed 8 parts of their health care law when signing it, but 6 of those were overturned almost immediately, and the other 2 were eventually overturned, too.
To say Romneycare was a GOP plan is factually disingenuous.
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