Catching up on my e-mail, I just got to this one from this morning:
SHEHEEN CAMPAIGN WELCOMES FATHER OF MANDATED HEALTHCARE TO SC
Camden, SC—Today, the Sheheen for governor campaign welcomes former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney to South Carolina, where he is campaigning with Nikki Haley. Romney, who has contributed over $60,000 to Haley’s campaign, is “the intellectual father of national health reform” after he enacted “Romneycare” in Massachusetts.
“If any one person in the world deserves credit for where we are now [with the passage of the new federal law], it’s Mitt Romney. He designed the structure of the federal bill.” –Wall Street Journal, April 9, 2010.
“In 2006, then-governor Mitt Romney signed a sweeping health-insurance overhaul in Massachusetts into law. It relied on subsidies, exchanges, and mandates to extend coverage to the uninsured.” –Newsweek, April 19, 2010.
“The Massachusetts law, which was championed by former GOP Governor Mitt Romney, imposed an individual mandate, requiring nearly all residents to buy health insurance or else pay a penalty,” –Wall Street Journal, July 11, 2009.
“As President Obama himself has pointed out, Romney is the guy who created the prototype for Obamacare,” –David Boaz, vice president of the libertarian Cato Institute.
Sheheen for Governor Communications Director Kristin Cobb had this to say: “Nikki Haley has spent months misleading the voters on Vincent Sheheen’s position on mandated healthcare, but brings in the father of mandated healthcare to campaign with her. She claims to be against healthcare mandates but I guess $60,000 will make her ignore the facts.
Fortunately, South Carolinians are not ignoring her continued hypocrisy, her dishonesty, and her attempt to purchase the governor’s office with Washington special interest money,” she concluded.
Mitt Romney video: “I like mandates.”
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Here’s some irony for you. Haley and Obama may be 180 degrees from each other on policy matters, but their narcissistic, arrogant personalities are certainly in sync.
Qhy did it take 18 months and 2000 pages of legislation if Romney already had the solution?
Because the Democrat bill is nothing like Romneys.
On other SHJ mention: COLUMBIA — Several possible Republican presidential contenders were in South Carolina to rally voter support for GOP candidates in next week’s election, even as they weigh their own ambitions for 2012.
South Carolina must appear to be weakening as a GOP state. In this case, I hope SC comes back to her independent spirit.
@ Doug – it’s clear- and has been clear- that the national healthcare legislation was modeled after Romney’s state run program.
here are several things that Romney’s plan MANDATES
an individual and employer mandate (individuals BY LAW are required to have coverage under Romney’s plan)
subsidies for those who would have trouble buying insurance
minimum standards for coverage
and the larger point- Ms. Haley welcomed Romney – and he’s just as Liberal on this issue as Sheheen is (in fact, probably more liberal since Romney introduced and fought hard for this plan)