I hate when that happens
Mitt Romney is traveling around the country telling Americans how evil Obamacare is, the health insurance reform modeled after his own Romneycare back in Massachusetts. He calls it “an unfolding disaster for the American economy, a budget-busting entitlement, and a dramatic new federal intrusion into our lives.”
Meanwhile, back Massachusetts, health insurance rates in the program are actually dropping.
Massachusetts residents who participate in the state’s healthcare program are seeing their insurance premiums going down by 5 percent, officials say.While healthcare insurance premiums have gone up in other states, those participating in the state’s Health Connector Commonwealth Care program are enjoying a second year of reduced premium payments courtesy of the healthcare reform act signed into law by then Gov. Mitt Romney, Forbes.com reported.
It really takes courage to condemn your signature gubernatorial achievement just to appease a party that you actually disagree with on so much. It must create an intense internal karmic crater in your soul to sell yourself out like that. I predict we’ll see Mitt Romney slowly begin to go insane, just like John McCain did in 2008.
I mean after all, how long can he keep spitting on his own health insurance reforms when you read stuff like this about it?
Currently, Massachusetts has the highest level of healthcare coverage in the country with more than 98 percent of its residents having healthcare insurance, but ranking as the 48th lowest state in the nation in healthcare expenditures.The combined saving of last year and this year will save the state approximately $91 million with no benefit reductions or member co-pay increases, the report said.
That’s the kind of thing a candidate should be running on; the kind of success that you paint on a gigantic banner and parade around the country. And Mitt Romney has to hide from it.
That has got to take its toll.
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