Comments on: VIDEO: IS THE GOP REALLY DUMB ENOUGH TO NOMINATE THIS MAN FOR PRESIDENT? http://www.healthcarebs.com/2011/04/13/video-is-the-gop-really-dumb-enough-to-nominate-this-man-for-president/ Cleaning the Augean Stables of the Health Care Debate Mon, 21 May 2012 18:18:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: alice armstrong http://www.healthcarebs.com/2011/04/13/video-is-the-gop-really-dumb-enough-to-nominate-this-man-for-president/#comment-465434 alice armstrong Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:18:03 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2011/04/13/video-is-the-gop-really-dumb-enough-to-nominate-this-man-for-president/#comment-465434 ARE THE GOP THAT DUMB THAT THEY THINK PEOPLE ARE GOING REALLY VOTE FOR ANY OF THEM? MITT HATE DOGS. LOOK WHAT HE DID TO HIS PET. READ ONLINE ON THE DARKSIDE MITT ROMNEY. THEY ARE ALL MORONS. THEY'RE NOT SANE, NOT ONE IN THE BUNCH. THEY REALLY HATE WOMEN. I WOULD LIKE A SMART WOMAN TO RUN. I'M SICK OF ALL THESE MEN TAKING WOMEN RIGHTS AWAY. THIS MATTERS TO ME AND WHAT HAPPENS TO THE EARTH. THE GOP WOULD LOVE TO HAVE ANOTHER WAR. THEY'RE SICK! ARE THE GOP THAT DUMB THAT THEY THINK PEOPLE ARE GOING REALLY VOTE FOR ANY OF THEM? MITT HATE DOGS. LOOK WHAT HE DID TO HIS PET. READ ONLINE ON THE DARKSIDE MITT ROMNEY. THEY ARE ALL MORONS. THEY’RE NOT SANE, NOT ONE IN THE BUNCH. THEY REALLY HATE WOMEN. I WOULD LIKE A SMART WOMAN TO RUN. I’M SICK OF ALL THESE MEN TAKING WOMEN RIGHTS AWAY. THIS MATTERS TO ME AND WHAT HAPPENS TO THE EARTH. THE GOP WOULD LOVE TO HAVE ANOTHER WAR. THEY’RE SICK!

]]> By: nyp http://www.healthcarebs.com/2011/04/13/video-is-the-gop-really-dumb-enough-to-nominate-this-man-for-president/#comment-464040 nyp Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:06:26 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2011/04/13/video-is-the-gop-really-dumb-enough-to-nominate-this-man-for-president/#comment-464040 Absolutely right. Exchanges and the individual mandate are the centerpieces of the Obama health reform law. And they come straight from Mitt Romneys’ innovations in Massachusetts. To be fair, they did represent Republican orthodoxy at the time. Here, for example, is how the Heritage Foundation used to defend the idea of mandating health insurance purchases against the charge that it was no different from forcing someone to buy a GM car: ““If a young man wrecks his Porsche and has not had the foresight to obtain insurance, we may commiserate but society feels no obligation to repair his car. But health care is different. If a man
is struck down by a heart attack in the street, Americans will care for himwhether or
not he has insurance. If we find that he has spent money on other things rather than
insurance, we may be angry but we will not deny him services— even if that means
more prudent citizens end up paying the tab.�

Without the intellectual support of institutions like Heritage and the policy support of politicians such as Mitt Romney and Oren Hatch, health reform would never have gotten off the ground.

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