Preview of Things to Come: Half of primary care physicians in Massachusetts are not accepting new patients

Democrats claim they modeled Obamacare on Romneycare in Massachusetts. We can expect this nationwide in a couple of years or less.

Via The Boston Globe:

KATHRYN QUIRK THOUGHT it would be easy to find a new doctor when she moved from Boston to Newton in 2009, just like it was when she arrived in Boston in 1996. Back then, she walked across the street to a doctor’s office and got an appointment.
It isn’t 1996 anymore. Quirk still hasn’t found a primary care doctor she feels comfortable with. Her quest sounds a lot like dating; in four years she’s had three doctors and has sometimes preferred to get care from physician’s assistants and nurse practitioners who work in those doctors’ offices. With three kids, a husband, and a job, Quirk doesn’t have endless time to look. She’s frustrated that it took her four months to find her first doctor in Newton. When she didn’t connect with that physician, she was able to switch to one she liked. But his practice stopped taking her insurance, and Quirk has needed a good chunk of this year to land a replacement doctor. She felt relief in September when she found one who was accepting new patients, but that was only the first hurdle. She won’t find out whether she likes this new doctor for a while; she couldn’t get an appointment until April 2014.

Flashback: In 2009, Mitt Romney op-ed in USA Today urged President Obama to embrace individual mandate in Obamacare

Out of all the issues Mitt Romney has flip-flopped on, healthcare reform is the biggest to many. Mitt Romney signed Romneycare in Massachusetts and still supports it. In spite of what Romney claims, Romneycare was the model for Obamacare. Romney defends Romneycare as a state solution and Conservatives certainly believe in state's rights. That isn't the issue. Massachusetts certainly had a right under the Federal Constitution to pass laws for things not reserved to the Federal Government by the U.S. Constitution. Of course, they have to abide by their State Constitution. The real issue isn't if Massachusetts had a right to do Romneycare. The question is, "Was it the right thing to do?" Romneycare was a massive intrusion into a private industry and included a mandate that forced citizens to buy a private product because they live in the state of Massachusetts. Even if this is allowed under Massachusetts' Constitution, it is a massive expansion of government regulation and a violation of citizen's individual liberty. Anyone who supports this has no idea what our founding fathers, and countless others since then, fought and died for.

RedState reported:

In July 2009, Mitt Romney wrote an op-ed in USA Today urging Barack Obama to usean individual mandate at the national level to control healthcare costs.

On the campaign trail now, Mitt Romney says the individual mandate is appropriate for Massachusetts, but not the nation. Repeatedly in debates, Romney has said he opposes a national individual mandate.

But back in 2009, as Barack Obama was formulating his healthcare vision for the country, Mitt Romney encouraged him publicly to use an individual mandate. In his op-ed, Governor Romney suggested that the federal government learn from Massachusetts how to make healthcare available for all. One of those things was “Using tax penalties, as we did, or tax credits, as others have proposed, encourages “free riders” to take responsibility for themselves rather than pass their medical costs on to others.”

Friends, if Mitt Romney is the nominee, we will be unable to fight Obama on an issue that 60% of Americans agree with us on.

Romney still standing by Romneycare

This is why Mitt Romney will not be the GOP presidential candidate in 2012. Anyone who thinks it is OK for the government, even on a state level, to force citizens to buy a private product because they are alive and live in that state has no understanding of the word "liberty."

Via NRO:

Mitt Romney refused to criticize his Massachusetts health-care program tonight, saying he would prefer to lose the primary rather than renounce it.

“I’m standing by what I did in Massachusetts,” Romney said on Fox News Channel’s Special Report with Bret Baier. “I’m not trying to dust it aside. I’m absolutely firm that it was the right thing for our state. I’ll defend that and I understand it has political implications. And if it keeps me from winning a primary, so be it. But that happens to be the truth.”

“It’s by far, the biggest challenge I have in the primary race,” Romney admitted, before going on to criticize his rivals. “And if I were willing to say anything to get elected, wouldn’t I just say, ‘oh, it was a mistake,’ because I’ve watched other people on the stage when they talk about their cap-and-trade policies, they say, ‘oh, that was a mistake.’ When someone says, ‘oh, I did this ad on global warming,’ that was a mistake. So they’ve just brushed it aside.”

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Fail: Romney edited line about spreading Romneycare throughout the country from his book

And he lied about it in Thursday night's debate...

ORLANDO, Fla. (WLS) - After the Republican presidential debate Thursday night, a senior advisor to Mitt Romney acknowledged that a line about spreading health care reform throughout the country was changed in the paperback version of Romney’s book No Apology.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry said during the Florida debate that Romney took out the single line that suggested the Massachusetts health reform law could be applied to the country.  The line that is removed in the paperback version reads, “We can accomplish the same thing for everyone in the country.”

Romney has been dogged during the presidential campaign by the Massachusetts health reform law, which was a model for the national law Democrats enacted in 2010.  Republicans are united in their opposition to the national law.

During the debate Romney denied that his book had been changed.

“I actually -- I actually wrote my book, and in my book I said no such thing.  What I said -- actually, when I put my health care plan together -- and I met with Dan Balz, for instance, of The Washington Post.  He said, is this a plan that if you were president you would put on the nation, have the whole nation adopt it?  I said, absolutely not.  I said, this is a state plan for a state, it is not a national plan."

Rudy Giuliani demands Mitt Romney apologize for RomneyCare

If Mitt Romney is to have nay hope of being victorious in the GOP 2012 presidential primary, he should heed Rudy Giuliani's advice. Romney should admit Romneycare was a huge mistake and throw himself on the mercy of GOP primary voters.

(NY Daily News) – Rudy Giuliani demanded that Mitt Romney apologize for his Massachusetts health care plan during a visit to New Hampshire on Friday.

The former mayor of New York said that Romney made a “terrible mistake” in requiring residents to purchase health care when he signed the plan into law five years ago, the New Hampshire Union Leader reports.

“[Romney] can’t talk his way out of this,” Giuliani said. “If you create a state or a federal government that can give orders like that, you’re taking away people’s freedom, and I think Gov. Romney should be more sensitive to that.”

Confirmed: Massachusetts Republicans Don't Like RomneyCare

There is hope for Massachusetts.

(NH Journal) — A majority of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents in Massachusetts would like to see the 2006 health care law enacted by then-Gov. Mitt Romney and the state legislature repealed and replaced with something else, according to a new survey by Magellan Strategies for NH Journal.

Romney signed the law in 2006 alongside deceased U.S. Senator and liberal lion Ted Kennedy, whom he called his “collaborator and friend.” Some of his Republican critics have attacked the plan as too liberal and Democrats have mocked Romney for inspiring President Obama’s health care reform law, which Romney opposes.

Fifty-three percent of respondents said they wanted to see the Massachusetts law repealed, while only twenty-nine percent said they wanted to keep it. Eighteen percent were undecided or unsure.

Democrats Put Out "Thank You Mitt " For RomneyCare Video

Hell will freeze over before Republicans will run this RINO for President.


Thank You Mitt (video)

Pot Meet Kettle: Romney Slams Obamacare

Mitt Romney signed Romneycare into law in Massachusetts. There is an individual mandate in Romneycare. Anyone who doesn't understand that making a private citizen by a product, just to live in your borders, is a violation of American's rights doesn't deserve to be President.

BARTLETT, N.H. (AP) — Call it an attempt to address an obvious political vulnerability.

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on Saturday derided President Barack Obama’s health care law — modeled in some ways after one the ex-governor signed in Massachusetts — as a misguided and egregious effort to seize more power for Washington.

“Obamacare is bad law, bad policy, and it is bad for America’s families,” Romney declared. “And that’s the reason why President Obama will be a one-term president.”