Romney lied about always opposing a national insurance mandate (videos)
We have heard it time and time again, "RomneyCare was a choice for Massachusetts as an experiment, but doing it nationally is a bad idea, likely won't work, and is unconstitutional". This is what Mitt Romney has been saying since the Iowa debates (LINK), but the video taped evidence shows that Romney was supporting a national insurance mandate up to at least 2009. In the videos Mitt Romney says that his plan helps keeps costs down, but the record shows that the RomneyCare policy team was not really interested in keeping costs down, and as the record shows the cost of healthcare in Massachusetts has far exceeded the rest of the country (and YOU are helping to pay for it). Even if RomneyCare or such a plan could help keep costs down in theory; the simple truth is that getting control of healthcare (a sixth of our economy) is too much of a temptation for politicians to regulate favors, kickbacks, ideological experiments etc into the system. Government cannot be trusted with that much power as we have seen with socialized health care around the world and are already seeing in ObamaCare. Mitt Romney not being honest about this is nothing new to our readers as we reported:
Romney: Requiring people to have health insurance is “conservative” - LINK ...
....on January 9th, but these videos bring a new attention to this important story. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=J9QHWPOSjWI]
"Well that’s what we did in Massachusetts and that is we put together an exchange, the president is copying that idea. I’m glad to hear that. We let people buy their own private insurance. Most people can afford to buy that insurance once you have an exchange that allows them to do that in a cost effective basis. And then for those that are low income you help them buy their own private insurance. But you don’t set up a government insurance plan because it’s going to end up costing billions of dollars in subsidy. It’s the wrong way to go."
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OJ5QHsmOAlE] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M9gGwW2gCs]
Related:
New York Magazine: How Romney Advocated Obamacare and Lied About It - LINK
Newsmax: RomneyCare and ObamaCare Are Identical - LINK
MIT Economist: ObamaCare is RomneyCare with three more zeros - LINK
Romney Supporter Florida AG Pam Bondi Says Mitt Wants RomneyCare In Every State - LINK
You paid the high cost of RomneyCare in Massachusetts - LINK
The Truth About RomneyCare - LINK