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FLyellowdog

(4,276 posts)
Fri Jun 29, 2012, 12:35 PM Jun 2012

My Facebook post today. Wonder who will respond?

OK, all my Republican friends. Help me out here.

Romney says that he will repeal ACA on day one of his presidency...Yet yesterday he spoke and said to us all, "What are some of the things that we’ll keep in place and must be in place in a reform, a real reform of our health care system?

One, we have to make sure that people who want to keep their current insurance will be able to do so...

Number two, got to make sure that those people who have pre-existing conditions know that they will be able to be insured and they will not lose their insurance...

We also have to assure that we do our very best to help each state in their effort to assure that every American has access to affordable health care."

These are the exact same things that are covered in the ACA. The only thing he left out was how he would pay for all of it. In Massachusetts he paid for it with...wait for it...a MANDATE! He didn't call it that or a tax but a personal responsibility. A rose by any other name, yada yada yada.

He is supporting the very same things he says are bad for this country.
So help me out here, folks. I'm confused. If these things are good for Republicans to support, then how can they be bad when the Democrats support them? I'm just sayin'.



Oops. My bad. Apparently Romney did call the mandate a tax penalty.
http://www.usatoday.com/​printedition/news/20090730/​column30_st.art.htm Guess he's just as confused as I.

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