Mitt Romney strikes again! NPR notes that his comments on 60 Minutes about how poor uninsured folks can rely on emergency room care contradicts previous statements he made in defense of his own Massachusetts health care plan:
...in 2010, in an appearance on MSNBC, Romney said almost exactly the opposite: "It doesn't make a lot of sense for us to have millions and millions of people who have no health insurance and yet who can go to the emergency room and get entirely free care for which they have no responsibility," he said at the time.
That's because back then, Romney was defending theMassachusetts law he signed as governor. It's the one that requires most people to either have health insurance or pay a fine — just like the federal law he now vows to repeal.
He used even more colorful language back in 2007, talking to Fox News host Glenn Beck. "When they show up at the hospital, they get care; they get free care paid for by you and me," he said. "If that's not a form of socialism, I don't know what is" [Julie Rovner, "Romney's Medicaid Remarks on 60 Minutes Raise Eyebrows," NPR.org, September 25, 2012].
Oh, Mitt. You make Four More Years far too easy.
Cory, Mitt's brilliant...you have to give him that. Funny thing, when I went to the ER for a bat bite back in '08, the care was far from FREE and I ended up paying over $5,000 out of pocket. So, I don't know what ol' Mitt's been smokin' lately. LOL
It is a better deal for the upper manager class of the healthcare operations to have people go to e-rooms. Their pay is often calc'd on the gross and not the receipts. If a bill is a $5,000 gross for non insured their paycheck is based on it not the actual payment received after account is chargedoff.
Romney's opponent is Mitt Romney. He won the primaries with the immense super pac-funded carpet bombing of his opponents state after state. And he ran against the worst field of GOP alternatives in decades. He sure didn't win them with his warmth and charm in speeches and debates where he turned in mediocre performances.
Now that he's down to the Democrat incumbent, he isn't allowed to duck behind the carpet bombing. He has to explain his failure to produce tax returns. He has to explain his leftie positions on abortion, climate change, gay marriage and spending against his brand spanking new positions he adopted only in the last 12 months.
The more he is expected to explain, the phonier he looks. Oddly enough, if Obama had a better class of opponent this year, the shoe would be on the other foot.
It must be nice to live in "Governor Bubble's" world, ay?
Romney is a liberal, just like Obama.
Steve Sibson is correct!
Romney is neither liberal nor conservative: he's selfish.
Sibby is wrong, please correct the statement to say both are Corporatist. These two men hold not alliance to any fundamental US Constitution based governing philosophy. They believe in what their international corporate backers want them to believe in. Gone are the days of real Democrats or real Republicans running for office believing in helping the American people based on their deep felt beliefs.
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We now have this "REVISED PREAMBLE" I read somewhere a while ago:
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We the wealthy of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Illusion, pretend Justice, insure common Conformity, provide for the upper-class defense, promote corporate Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to the selfish and their Profligacy, do ordain and establish this Consternation for the United States of America.
I agree with Eva.
Yes, I agree with Eve as well. For the first time in my long, supposedly rock-ribbed Republican voting life, I will not vote for the Republican candidate for President.
The Republican party has evolved into something I can no longer support. As for whether or not Mitt Romney is a Republican, that's academic as far as I'm concerned.
Does that mean you will vote for the Big O, or just not vote? While I certainly don't like Mitt, he'll say anything, worst case he does have a core that's moderate compared to someone like Rick Santorum. At some point we have to admit we fell in love with a sophomore. Granted he's a talented quick study, but we should be a little bit embarrassed. Hillary would have been a wiser choice. He's done some very good things but who approved sending that poor gay man to Libya.
John, I'll maintain that Barack Obama is one heck of an executive.
Stan, you're not alone. Heard the same thing at coffee on Sunday morning from 2 of the regulars.
Jon Stewart had a good segment tonight where he reminded everyone that Mitt Romney is the best that the GOP has to offer...wait...what?
Romney's heart aches for us: "I've been across this country. My heart aches for the people I've seen,"--Mitt Romney's latest words in Ohio campaign speech.
Romney family eats organic:
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/09/report-monsanto-man-mitt-romney-eats-organic