Romney Insurance Plan Basically Involves Heaping More Money on Insurance Companies, Not Covering Pre-Existing Conditions
Mitt Romney’s insurance stance is basically anti-Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, but that doesn’t mean the presumptive GOP candidate is actually able to answer any questions about what he will do about the growing cost of health care were he elected to office.
Romney confirmed his health insurance company favoring views this week at a campaign stop in Orlando, where he told a group of supporters that “regardless of what they do, it’s going to be up to the next President to either repeal and replace Obamacare or to replace Obamacare.”
Romney’s insurance position on pre-existing conditions also has not wavered. While President Obama’s plan solves the problem of pre-existing condition denials, Romney’s insurance stance firmly ignores the fact that in a time of record unemployment, many ill Americans have been unable to maintain a steady job and thus, steady health insurance.
Back in March, Romney went on Jay Leno’s show, and the issue of health insurance and pre-existing conditions arose. Romney hedged, unwilling to specifically acknowledge that a large swath of Americans uncovered after job losses would, in his plan, be urged to “die quickly.”
The Republican candidate tried to make it look like he was for not excluding people, attempting to mask his position:
“…people who have been continuously insured, let’s say someone’s had a job for a while but insured, then they get real sick and they happen to lose a job, or change jobs, they find, gosh, I’ve got a pre-existing condition, I can’t get insured. I’d say, no, no no. As long as you’ve been continuously insured, you ought to be able to get insurance going forward. See, you have to take that problem away. You have to make sure the legislation doesn’t allow insurance companies to reject people.”
Leno asks about people who have lost their jobs or were never offered health insurance in the first place, and Romney hedges:
“Well, people with pre-existing as long as they’d been insured before, they’re going to be able to continue to have insurance.”
Still doesn’t answer the question directly, right? Jay mentions people in the auto industry who have never been able to get insurance, and Romney dodges:
“Well, we’ll look at circumstance where someone was ill, and hasn’t been insured so far. But people have had the chance to be insured. If you’re working at an auto business, for instance.”
After Romney’s recent insurance comments at the campaign stop in Orlando, Obama campaign manager Stephanie Cutter blasted the GOP frontrunner’s stance, saying:
“Mitt Romney just clarified the choice in this election – he’d put insurance companies back in charge. People living with pre-existing conditions from asthma to breast cancer are on their own if Mitt Romney is elected president and millions more would lose their health insurance.”
Tags : Affordable Care Act, jay leno, Mitt Romney, mitt romney insurance, Obama Care, romney, romney insurance, romneycare, stephanie cutter
Posted: June 14, 2012
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Jun 14, 2012
Go Mitt Go, eventually your true colors will show. The rest of the people will find out you are not for the working class.
Jun 14, 2012
So Oblundercare resolves the issue of pre-existing. It also resolves the issues of those that don't have healthcare. The only problem is that is raises the cost of healthcare for those that are paying for it. Healthcare continues to rise to take care of the added costs to the insurances companies to resolve those issues. So to use Obama's logic it's OK to take money from those that have it & give it away to those that don't. IT'S CALLED SOCIALISM. It doesn't work because it's been tried & it fails. THESE ARE THE FACTS. So it's easy for the liberals to spin this as a good thing. Let's penalize 95% to take care of the 5%. Everyone agrees the health care system need to be fixed. However, the government isn't the one to do it. They would ruin a 1 car funeral.
Jun 14, 2012
These people think that by commanding insurers to not turn people down due to pre-existing conditions, that it will solve the problem. It won't do anything because those same companies will force applicants to go through a waiting period before their condition will be covered. They will find a way to circumvent the law.
Jun 14, 2012
So what did Gov.Romney actually say? What's his stance? Something like if you have insurance you should be able to have insurance.WOW what a plan.Never has one guy said so much without saying anything.
Jun 14, 2012
Mr flip-flop without any answers, typical republican.
Jun 14, 2012
There's a non-bias article for ya.
Jun 14, 2012
Bottom line: what will kill this country will not be a foreign enemy. Instead what will kill this country will be numerous personal agendas that go every which way but in the direction that will help this country thrive. Unless those in power align their priorities to what is truly best for this country and not put their personal interests above those people they claim to serve, the United States will be a third world country within 5 years.
Jun 14, 2012
Day one…he'lrepeal all tax cuts for the middle class and enact new tax cuts for (himself) and thr rich and the elite class. thus causing more poor people and killing the economyeven more then it already is. If romney wins the middle class loses.
Jun 15, 2012
I think we should have a health care system that covers everyone but it should be on the state level instead of being run by the federal government. I believe that states are better equiped to handle these things than the federal government because it takes the states alot less time to handle things that the fed's. The main thing the federal government should be responsible for isnational protection, forgein policy, and governing all 50 states and other minor measures. If the people want the power back, we must take it back and pt it to work in the states that we live in instead of on a federal level.
Jun 15, 2012
fuck mitt rommey, I bet someone kills this bitch before november. I sure hope someone is brave enough to save america if he is elected.
Jun 15, 2012
to clarify: the health of a nation is related to its healthcare, if people cant get healthcare, is the nation healthy?
you idiots voting for romney prolly cant answer that question so I'll tell you rightly so, romney will kill more americans by denying them healthcare then Bush II killed in iraq.
Jun 15, 2012
I don't belive we can be a great country if only some Americans have good healthcare…Pres Obamas plan is not the best however its better than nothing..All for one and one for all.
Jun 15, 2012
tim? are you retarded? when someone who has NO insurance goes to the hospital, who pays? YOU STUPID! and tell me, how has the capitalist crap we play in the states working? oops, we borrow from a commie country, CHINA! you are a fux noise watcher. i can tell by your ignorance. and show me where the united states has done so well for the average working man? and show me when socialism failed. STUPID!! you don't even know what socialism is. IGNORANT FUX NOISE WATCHER.
Jun 15, 2012
If Mitt Romney get in the White House, and fas enough repobs in the "People will not know amything".
(that is going on unit it too late)!
"Decisions will be made in quiet room that Romney talks about on TV and on Fox news".
Romney will dictate as if Mitt Romney is runing his private company.
like G.W.Bush did?
God Bless the 98% and God Bless the pool!
Thank you,
marqus fischer
June 14,2012 time, 9:47pm.
Jun 15, 2012
hey tim, found then there death panels yet? STUPID
Jun 15, 2012
hey tim, you DO mean republicans will ruin a one car funeral, correct. bush and the coward dickless cheney are WAR CRIMINALS
Jun 15, 2012
hey tim, repeat after me. TIM IS STUPID i hope that is not too hard for you. again, TIM IS STUPID is that a gay flag you are hiding behind?
Jun 15, 2012
hey tim, who pays for your insurance? if you even have it. tell us tim, did you finish the 9th grade? bet you are from a red state. you know, the stupid uneducated ones. i bet you work at wal mart.
Jun 15, 2012
yeah chris, thanks to the 2 war criminals, bush and the coward cheney started us down the path of destruction. President Obama 2012
Jun 15, 2012
sure anthony. you are so wrong. so tell me, you really think the states with republican governors, the red states, the ones with the most unemployment, the most unwed mothers, the most obese, the most uneducated will help you get insurance? the right to work states, right to work for less. thanks for your service, but you are wrong.
Jun 15, 2012
Only losers don't have health insurance.
Jun 15, 2012
So you think it's better to just deny them? Not putting words in our mouth, just asking.
Jun 15, 2012
1: It's "non-biased". 2: They used Romney's words. 3: Everybody is biased.
Jun 15, 2012
Tim: Sweden, Norway, and Denmark are all socialist governments. Socialism is not Communism, which is apparently what all of you Glenn Beck groupies seem to think. You can't see past your own rhetoric enough to see that this whole insurance based health care system punishes those that are most in need of health care. How about, when you say "THESE ARE THE FACTS", you actually post facts and not just something someone posted on your favorite tea party website.
One more thing, why must you insist on making up names like an elementary school bully? You're supposedly an adult and a christian, so why don't you try to act like it for a change?
Jun 15, 2012
So I'm guessing you don't have any…
Oh yeah, and only losers post a wall photo that looks like a man just wanked one on your face.
Jun 15, 2012
timmie baughman do you pay one teacher/cop/fireman/etc.. in your town each week? no you don't. their paychecks come out of property taxes. timmie,timmie, timmie, we are all socialists to some extent. fact timmie medicare has gone up 400+% but ah, wait timmie, insurance has gone up 700+% over the same time. besides, timmie i like republican health care, don't you? republican health care is DON'T GET SICK. BUT IF YOU DO, DIE. AND DIE QUICKLY. HEY TIMMIE HOW ARE YOU FEELING NOW? HEALTHY LIKE A GOOD CONSERVATIVE, CHRISTIAN REPUBLICAN? regards, john
Jun 15, 2012
The difference is, and as I'm sure you know, One individual does not have all the right answers (that is why we have a cabinet),
obama thinks he has all the answers and wants to be the H.N.I.C.
But, He can't lead further then shouting "hate whitey" on a street corner in Chicago(like his mentor rev. whright).
The current President has PROVEN he can not LEAD and therefore needs to be replaced.
President elect Romney? who knows?
But, even YOU could do better then the current shame…
Jun 15, 2012
We do not need 4 more years of this "trophy wife" president.
We need a leader.
Blaming others is NOT leading.
OMG (obama MUST go).
Jun 15, 2012
This is the EXACT problem the dumbocraps have. THEIR "savior" has lost he's luster and they are scrambling…
Being a libitard, and therefore "never" wrong. they can not reconcile that they voted a sham artist into the White House. and will do everything in their power to thwart the ENVIABLY.
O.M.G. obama must go!
Jun 15, 2012
thebluesaiint, the thing you so "conveniently" leave out of your rant is we already have FREE healthcare, It's called medicaid, if you would stop ABUSING it, it would work. But, your warped view of obummercare is that you get your free needles when you need them. It is nothing like that. You HAVE to have insurance. Through your employer(You PAY) You do NOT get the option to NOT have insurance. If you do NOT buy your employers insurance, then you MUST buy obama's insurance!!!!
Don't you get this? sponge off mom.and dad all you want but YOU are responsible for YOUR insurance "quota" $$ under obummercare
Jun 15, 2012
Considering that my wife is one of those individuals, absolutely not. But it needs to be shown that, one way or another, these insurance companies are going to get around it.
Jun 15, 2012
Dude, you just killed the English language six times while to trying to lay the blame on Romney. And I friggin' HATE Romney. Just use a spell check or finish High School or something. Please.
Jun 15, 2012
I regret to say it but I am begining to be embarrassed to be an American. I lived in Europe for a few years and the healthcare was AWESOME. I am embarrassed because we are too wimpy as a people to demand universal heathcare. what kind of a country does not want to take care of it's people? What is wrong with us? Are we so greedy we won't pay a bit more to make sure innocent children and others have proper coverage? even as we spend billions fighting wars to keep the already rich making even more money. if this was europe there would be mass demonstations and strikes untill the government spent OUR money the way we want it spent. and any idiot that says we have free care already is a liar or fool. example…try going to an emergency room and asking for help with a prostate screening. unless you are pissing blood they will tell you to see a regular Dr. No ins…..two years later your a dead man if you have cancer. but it's no emergency because your not "hurt". Ron Paul, the dope who could have been where romney is right now if he was not so inflexible kept saying just go to the emergency room if your sick. this advice is putting hospitals out of business! those who do have ins are paying for those who don't. so why not just pay our fair share and help our fellow Americans. such a great country we have but it's being taken over by the wealthy who don't give a crap about anyone else. it's unAmerican and un Godly. I am proud to be born and raised in the USA but if they don't fix this I am outta here!
Jun 16, 2012
GOOD ONE!! LOL
Jun 16, 2012
I need my welfare check I'm such a loser who cant take care of myself. Damn rich people.
Jun 16, 2012
if Romnney is elected, those of us with health issues will be rejected and die, most of ther middle income will be effected but only until it affe3cts thwem will they open thier eyes I am medically retired after 32 federal years and hav e yet to have the medical retirement completed so I have been without medical insurance for 16 months and most likely will not be reinsured as most companies will not ensure you after a year without med insurance, 3 strokes during the last year of employment mostly from working 10 to 12 hours a day. The ship is sinking and will surely sink if The Romnney is elected.
Jun 16, 2012
Romney is so lacking in substance and sensitivity. He doesn't give a rat's ass about the 45 million people without health insurance. He has no alternative to Obamacare, but he won't admit that it's even the right direction for us to to be going in. To him, Romneycare is great, Obama care is awful…even though they're almost identical.
Jun 16, 2012
There is no sense fighting over Obama and Romney. All I have to say as a Obama supporter is wait and see I believe Romney will run this country further in to the ground than it alr3eady is. So instead of saying he will do this he will do that. Wait you will see who becomes president. If the Romney people are right and he does good I will eat crow. But IF he literally screws this county. Then I can say told you so…and if he does his supporters will become haters when it effects their lives. I all boils down to this Wait and SEE! Every politician lies to get elected and then does the exact opposite. Why would this be any different…
Jun 16, 2012
Obama for me again!!!!!
Jun 16, 2012
Me too tio
Jun 17, 2012
All efforts to compromise have been blocked by tea party politicians, we are supposed to be a country that looks at data and submits plans to correct the path of mistakes, both sides are guilty of partisian politics we have to stop this now!!! I voted for Regan he did compromise he got congress and thre senate to rally around the countries needs not ther parties needs. I as a republican have read non partisan data and most of what my party submits as evidence is false, for Gods sake we need to heal we need to come together as a nation to correct our current situation.
Jun 17, 2012
Your incorrect Kevin I have worked for 36 years I have a BA in enviromental mgmt and a disabled vet 70% due to an exposure in a country I can't even tell you about. I was medically retired and have for almost 16 months treid to have it finalized, I purchased insurance for my wife but had to settle for a group plans as I could not affored 1675.00 dollars a month for just her coverage, i now have to use the VA they are good but I cannot count on them for all medical services as the red tape is incredible for certain medical issues. I am not unique in my situation read non partician data and you will be disgusted at just how bad the situation is, read the wall street journal on market values for medical stock markets in biomed pharmacutical gains yet no more than 2% of that is injected back into healthcare.
Jun 18, 2012
Sir the only job those medical stocks have is to maximize profits to there shareholders. which in turn gives us cool medical treatments. You want that stuff for free? sorry no free lunch.
Jun 19, 2012
bcoy2 your info is a bad as your state of mind calling you derogatory words would only make me as bad as you so instead I will say a prayer for you to wake up and look at what my fellow vets including black, brown, white, yellow, red and all other colors inbetween have shed for this country, red blood. You should be ashamed of yourself! If our point is to be ignoraant you have succeded!!!