Romneycare is something Romney has been trying to distinguish from "Obamacare," but he has not done a very good job of it. Romney is a creature of expediency. When he thought that Massachusetts voters would support Romneycare, he gave it to them. Now that the right wing propaganda machine has defamed "Obamacare," and the majority of Republican voters don't want it, he is weaseling and crawfishing in all kinds of ways to try to create distinctions between Romneycare and "Obamacare" such that his objections to the latter do not appear hypocritical. Lotsaluck, Mitt--intelligent voters can see through the silly rationales you are attempting to foist on them.
This one is easy upsida,
Romneycare is legal, Obamacare is not. I'm not saying Romneycare is a good thing and I'm
not saying Obamacare is a good thing either. Obamacare is just plain un-Constitutional. In the
Constitution of the United States of America it gives the Federal Gov't certain enumerated
powers. In Article One Section Eight it does not give the Federal Gov't any authority to impose
a mandatory requirement for citizens to have health care insurance. Again the Constitution is
ignored by the socialists.
Skippy
Not all that easy, Skippy. First off, it occurs to me that you are NOT the Supreme Court of this nation; the U.S. Supreme Court is, however. Do not be overconfident as to how that court will rule on this issue. The same argument you make against national health insurance could have been made concerning Social Security, the official name of which is the "Federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Program, which pays benefits from the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund"
So-o, Skippy, in Social Security we have an insurance program that is mandatory upon all--or virtually all (there are exceptions, as for the Amish)--workers and that mandatory insurance program has not been struck down by any federal court and is not going to be. I think that the "Obamacare" program, another federal insurance program, has a pretty good chance for validation by the U.S. Supreme Court. I might be wrong, but I am not oozing the kind of overconfidence you seem so comfortable with. Think about it.
The Courts are not supposed to make law, they are supposed to inforce the law. The Supreme
Court is wrong. The Constitution no where gives anywhere in the Fed. Gov't's enumerated
powers the right to create Social Security let alone Obamacare. Artical One Section Eight.
Read it. You'll be enlightened. On the other hand never mind I doubt you can understand
what freedom is.The Socialist courts have been making it up as they go.
I guess the unions and certain states will be like the Amish and won't have to play in the
Obamacare Game. Hopefully we kick you guys out of power soon. God Bless America.
Skippy