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In reply to the discussion: Are we done bedwetting??? [View all]bluestate10
(10,942 posts)And the President did a poor job during the debate. One issue that turned my stomach was Romney claiming that he worked with the democratic legislature in Massachusetts to get RomneyCare. The fact is that Romney agreed to the health care plan only after it was clear that the legislature was going to approve and implement it's own plan over a Romney veto. Even after agreeing to a plan, Romney tried to gut three key provisions and was over-ridden by the legislature. Even after the legislature forced the law down Romney's throat, Romney dragged his feet implementing the law. Romney set up insurance industry lackeys to set up the critical exchange, making a fucking mess joke of the exchange. The Massachusetts health care law didn't truly get implemented until after Deval Patrick won election in 2006 and came in with the intention of fixing the plan and getting the exchange working. Patrick and the legislature worked hand in hand, Patrick replaced the Romney appointees with consumer oriented health plan administrators, the plan took off establishing more plan choices, getting more companies to make plan offerings and enrolling more children and adults of every background. In essence, RomneyCare should be called PatrickMassachusettsLegislatureCare. I am fucking enraged that Obama's research team didn't fucking investigate Romney's only claim to fame and provided the President with ammo to walk on stage with. The miss can't fucking happen again because we will have an election that is closer than it should be.
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