Romney says he likes parts of 'Obamacare'

[highplainsdem]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, who promised early in his campaign to repeal President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, says he would keep several important parts of the overhaul.

"Of course there are a number of things that I like in health care reform that I'm going to put in place," he said in an interview broadcast Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." ''One is to make sure that those with pre-existing conditions can get coverage."

Romney also said he would allow young adults to keep their coverage under their parents' health-insurance.

Those provisions have been two of the more popular parts of Obama's Affordable Care Act.

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[Freddie]

1. But he'd gut the mandate, subsidies and exchanges

The pieces that make the whole thing work, especially the pre-existing conditions part.

[earthside]

8. Probably the opposite.

I have real doubts that Rmoney and the Repuglicans would 'repeal' ObamaCare if given the opportunity.

What could possibly be better for the health insurance industry than to keep the individual mandate ... but then start 'repealing' the regulations that guarantee coverage and controls costs?

In other words, the Repuglicans and their insurance industry masters would love to keep it law that everyone has to buy their product. Of course, they will want to do away with the most onerous parts of covering pre-existing conditions, free preventative care services, the services versus administration/profit split, etc.

Anyway, that is my cynical take on what would actually happen if Rmoney were president and the Repuglicans controlled Congress.

[Voice for Peace]

15. they will keep it and claim that they fixed it.

low information voters won't know the difference,
and they'll probably also take credit for killing bin laden.

[TomCADem]

24. Even Better, Try To Repeal It, But Let Dems Filibuster Repeal

Then take credit for it when it operates to reduce the deficit while running against those Dems who filibustered it.

[Kolesar]

11. +1

It won't task the voters who can only engage fourteen synapses at any one time.

[tridim]

2. Shake that etch-a-sketch again idiot.

Hey Mittens, the parts you "like" are already "in place", dumbass.

Worst. candidate. ever.

[harun]

36. +1, translation "I'm not a right wing nut, I just acted like one to get the nom"

[onehandle]

3. In two months, when conservatives are tearing this loser apart, I will smile. nt

[Ilsa]

5. They wil be replaying that video

Of Ann Coulter at a podium telling the Reichwingers, "If you nominate Mitt Romney, you will lose," or words to that effect.

Then they'll all cry like the babies they are and fantasize about violent displacement of our leadership. (I don't like using certain phrases on the internet.)

[AllyCat]

4. I'd say he goes the way the wind blows, except the wind blows and months later,

he picks it up. Jeez, this guy is horrible.

[BeyondGeography]

6. Not a great headline when you're trying to unseat an incumbent

[chuckstevens]

7. 3 Words

Borderline Personality Disorder!

[alcibiades_mystery]

9. Translation: Their internal polling showed the Affordable Care Act to be increasingly popular

They're losing the argument on "Obamacare," as was already evident from Obama and the Dems frequent mention of it on the stump and at the convention. They're losing it and losing it badly. The woman with the little girl who needed heart surgeries at the DNC was as effective as Bill Clinton, ultimately. So now they dive and cover and retract and revise and generally try to reverse their well-known positions, because their positions are losers.

Obama's team will keep hitting them on this, making Romney and his "Repeal" cohorts look increasingly foolish and out of touch.

[Kolesar]

12. the little girl who needed heart surgeries at the DNC--

The most meaningful scene in those three days

On the balance, the DNC was about saving GM-Lordstown and getting labor to vote for their own interests, though. I'm down with that.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

10. Another flipflop

This guy will say anything.

[mikki35]

13. What else CAN he say?

"Obamacare" IS "Romneycare"!!!! Of course he LIKES IT!! The incredibly stupid way this one issue was handled by Romney should have insured that he was never nominated, but somehow they schizo-ed themselves past it. But it's not gonna go away - it's gonna continue to bite him in the ass every which way. If he'd manned up from the git-go and admitted it WAS at least a workable plan, my guess is (1) they'd have picked someone else or (2) they'd have STFU about it! But noooooooo, he can't ever be brave or honest or take ownership and stand his ground on ANYTHING. I can't believe even the troglodytes masquerading as humans on the far right nominated this POS.

[tridim]

14. Ryan just said on "This Week" that they will repeal all of Obamacare.

[lovuian]

16. well well well Obama care does have support

of the Americans
and the Republicans know that

[Smilo]

17. Romney the hypocrite -

have you told the Kochroaches yet?

[Berlin Expat]

18. The bright side of this

is that it's really pissing off the Freepers.

Keep talking, Mitt; what a brilliant political tactic - giving your own base a reason NOT to vote for you!

[kestrel91316]

19. He'll keep everything except the "affordable" part of the ACA.

[WallaceRitchie]

20. 34th times the charm

The GOP-controlled House already voted 33 times for full repeal. If Republicans gain control of the Senate, they'll try to push it through there, too. And Romney will sign it if it passes. He's a lying sack of shit.

As someone else said, of course he likes the ACA. It's his plan. It's not in his hands to keep this or that, however.

[danbeee46]

21. The problem with that is"

that he said he would first repeal the entire ACA. There is no guarantee that the GOP would agree to reinstate any of it regardless of what Romney now says. Trust the GOP? I don't think so.

[Third Doctor]

22. The man

said he would repeal the entire thing if elected. Now he says he wants to keep parts of it. His looney base is having fits right now and they deserve what they get.

[TomCADem]

23. OMG! Mr. Multiplechoice Mittens Strikes Again!

The question will be whether the media holds him accountable for his prior denunciation and promises to repeal healthcare reform in its entirety. I am sure he will argue as a matter of semantics that he was not really breaking a promise, rather he remains free to re-implement parts of the bill. My take is that with Paul Ryan on the ticket, the right wing will give him free reign to says whatever needs to be said to win even if it directly contradicts promises he made just a few weeks before.

[RBInMaine]

25. FLIPPER ROBME wants to have it both ways. He is SUCH A FUCKING ASSHOLE PHONY !

[high density]

26. Sure, he's been saying that from the beginning

He rails against Obamacare and then talks about items from Obamacare that he'll "replace" it with.

[jmowreader]

27. Here's the Romneycare plan

We know that almost everyone likes parts of the Obamacare plan: portability, being able to keep your kid on your own policy through his or her college years, and no exclusions for pre-existing conditions. And a lot of us like the fact the insurance companies are restricted to a 20-percent profit margin. (Note that any other industry in America would be lighting stogies with hundred-dollar bills if they were guaranteed 20-percent profit.) The people who aren't real crazy about them are the insurance companies for obvious reasons: they can no longer take your money then tell you to GFY when you get sick.

We know that very few people like the mandate. Or the taxes they've added on, like the tanning-bed tax that Snooki is so up in arms about...uh, dear, if your tanning salon charges you $30 per month for unlimited tanning, the tax is less than the cost of a latte.

We know that people who don't know what an exchange is don't like it at all.

Romney's plan is to get rid of the mandate and the exchange, keep the rest for now, then eliminate the popular parts when insurance companies start to go broke.

[Jack Sprat]

28. and that could mean anything.

Making sure people can get coverage with pre-existing conditions for 5,000 bucks a month in premiums would be right up the Rom/Ryan alley.

[Jack Sprat]

29. Romney: The Man with No Plan

Starring Mitt Romney as the man with no convictions, no ideas, but plenty of corporate money to try to buy an election with.

Notice how the media portrays this as a change of heart. No, it's a change in poll numbers plain and simple and nothing else. Not to mention that everybody knows it who's paying attention.

[DallasNE]

30. Romney's Proposal Can't Work

Certainly the pre-existing condition provision cannot work as a stand alone provision. Why, because you have to bring under coverage those 30 million new people to help defray the cost of coverage. Otherwise the cost of insurance would skyrocket and more healthy people would drop coverage and compound the problem even more. Health care reform has to be comprehensive or it doesn't work. Medicare works because everybody is covered and it is single payer. Start messing with that formula and costs skyrocket. Same with younger Americans.

[LuckyLib]

31. Flip flop. Flippety Flop. Flip flop flippety flop.

[tclambert]

32. I LOVE this opponent. Say something stupid, Willard!

And he does practically every day.

[johnlucas]

33. The Republicans made a mistake when they called it 'Obamacare'

Think about that phrase for a moment:

Obamacare

Obama Care

Obama Cares

They ran their mouths so much saying 'Obamacare' until the people said "Yeah, ya know what? He DOES!"
"Romney don't care but Obama cares."

And then Obama's persona & demeanor matches the phrase making it stick.
Romney looks cold-hearted & aloof. Acts cold-hearted & aloof.
Has never seen a real day of struggle unlike Obama.
Those struggles Obama dealt with especially working on the streets as a community organizer shows him to be a man that cares.

Republican meme-making has backfired on them!
Hahahahahaha!
If this plan is HALFWAY decent, no one will ever downgrade national health care again.
Just like no one can stop Medicare or Social Security without a fight from the public.

Obama Cares, Romney Don't
John Lucas

[olddad56]

34. Romney says... whatever he thinks someone wants to hear at that particular moment.

[sinkingfeeling]

35. And he has another 'magic' plan to pay for it.

[bamacrat]

37. He just threw his chances away with that line.

The uber right has to be going apeshit. But if you gut the plan but leave only those in place the system will either collapse or premiums will quadruple.

[savalez]

38. Romney is lying about this too!

As soon as the camera was turned off his campaign retracted this.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=224118

[Wolf Frankula]

39. Rmoney declares once again

He will say and do anything to be elected.

Wolf