geauxtohell
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The difference between Obamacare and Romneycare? Romneycare was a state mandate voted on "by the people" for the funding....did not go past the borders of the state.
Obamacare was a federal mandate voted on by bribed and threatened politicians in the dead of the night.....that forces states to comply.
Yes, giving states the right and not the federal government is a conservative thingy.
Guy, there are a whole lot of flaws in that argument.
The first is that Romney was advocating mandates on the FEDERAL level as late as 2009. Until Obama did it by accident and suddenly, "conservatives' were now against this private sector solution that the Heritage Foundation had been touting for decades.
Now, you can gripe about how our dysfunctional system created a bad law. (I personally think we needed a public option to keep the private insurers honest, and a medicare buy in for people of my age group wouldn't have been a bad idea, either.) The point was, if Romney had faced the kind of mindless, kneejerk oppossition in MA that Obama has faced, he wouldn't have gotten anything done.
The second flaw is that somehow there is a magical difference between the state making you pay for insurance you don't think you need and the federal government doing it. I just don't see it. If I don't think I need the insurance, I'm still buying something I don't want. If I am doing the responsible thing, and buying insurance, I still see the people who aren't getting over on my dime when they do get sick.
Your gliding over the part where the "people" actually got to vote on the mandate.
Any referendum passed by a state are going to have people who didn't want it, but...it was passed by the majority of the people.
So by virtue of people voting for, it becomes conservative?
So gay marriage is now a conservative issue?