Or is he arguing that the free market will step in and health insurance companies will provide all these things for consumers if there is sufficient demand even though that was not happening, which was why Romney (and then Obama) signed legislation that ordered health insurance companies to do just that?
Pretty much.
Even without the mandate, Obamacare does not permit this. You can only opt in during the three month annual enrollment period, so you could be without insurance for up to 9 months.
That is a very cogent question.
It is as if there are no non-neoconservative news outlets out there.
Or perhaps the ones that exist are just trying to be nice.
Yes, I know. That’s why the ACA got traction. Romney is trying, in this latest iteration, to act as if he is offering something new in saying that people who are insured will be able to keep their coverage for preexisting conditions. It isn’t new at all, it pre-dated the ACA, and if Romney gets any traction at all from it it will be because Americans are really confused about health insurance.
Probably because you’re looking in the wrong place, that is: on television. Journalists don’t do television.
Yep, just adding something.
Watch - there will be people out there who adamantly insist that this is something new.
Because after the first time it happened (or second time, once to a conservative and once to a liberal), no one would go on that show any more.
They don’t even do journalism anymore.
Wow.
He was a better orator than Clinton.
So Romney takes the position that he has probably had all along. He did oversee the health care plan in Mass. Is this flip a surprise? He has had to pander to the far right to get the nomination, so now he will lose the independents and the people pissed off at Obama. It’s too bad, Romney did seem like he had some potential until he had to start wooing the super loud far right. The flip flopping hurts and the vagrant mis-representation of facts or just plain out lies he has used in this election are gross. The fact that he has any support is a disgrace.
Maybe the far right-wing fringe will demand “repeal ERISA” as their latest purity test for their nominee.
Cool, so now he is for complete repeal again.
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Last night, Romney appeared on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show, offering the far-right host an entirely new perspective on his approach to health care policy. “Well of course I’m going to repeal Obamacare,” Romney said. “I’ve said that on the campaign trail, I think, every single day. Obamacare must be repealed – in its entirety. It’s bad policy, it’s bad law, and frankly, a $2 trillion entitlement we don’t want and we certainly can’t afford… Obamacare is a disaster in my opinion, and has to be repealed entirely.”*
What a fucking clown.
I love the “of course”. As if he can’t figure out where people are getting the idea that he wouldn’t repeal all of it.
Wow, what a cool and saddening reminder of how silly everyone is, has been, and will continue to be.
Jesus, Romney, just stop talking. Just stand there and let your hair do all the talking, or at the very least, just let this guy be his spokesperson.
Unfortunately I can’t remember when, sometime during the primary, but I distinctly remember Romney smarmily saying almost exactly the same thing, except acknowledging explicitly it was the status quo prior to ACA. “as long as everything went absolutely perfectly in your life you wouldn’t have been able to be denied coverage for pre-existing conditions anyway, since you’d have had insurance your whole life. No problem to solve!”
Exactly why a filthy rich guy who has never had to really worry about anything is unfit to be president.
Does all of this count as one continuous flip-flop, or is it two?
I think “flip-flop” doesn’t really do it justice. More like a tripel axel followed by a double toe loop.