National Review Online
If I Were President: Obamacare, One Year In
Comment by Jim Campbell
Candidate Romney has only said he would issues waivers. There is a complete difference between issuing waivers and pledging to abolish this socialist travesty completely as have all the other candidates. Mitt has learned his lessons in double speak well.
If I were president, on Day One I would issue an executive order paving the way for Obamacare waivers to all 50 states. The executive order would direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services and all relevant federal officials to return the maximum possible authority to the states to innovate and design health-care solutions that work best for them. (And become beholden to the federal government for funding where strings are always attached)
As I have stated time and again, a one-size-fits-all national plan that raises taxes is simply not the answer. Under our federalist system, the states are “laboratories of democracy.” They should be free to experiment. By the way, what works in one state may not be the answer for another. Of course, the ultimate goal is to repeal Obamacare and replace it with free-market reforms that promote competition and lower health-care costs. But since an outright repeal would take time, an executive order is the first step in returning power to the state
According to Bachmann waivers won’t do it. It must be repealed and that is the only way. If not taken care of now it will be set in stone and we are all screwed. I am not sure how all this works, but if congress wants to maintain the status quo they will vote it out. Unless the Supreme Court decides it unconstitutional.
Mitt is a different side of the same coin, politicians have it in for the American public. Don’t elect or re- elect any politician to any office. Romney is Obama-lite! Same goes for Perry, Herman Cain is my hoped for next president, if not him then Ms. Bachman. They are inexperienced in D.C. and owe allegiances to no one. What do you want, politics as usual or CHANGE to a better America?
Romney – clown. Perry – clown. Everone of these candidates are clowning the American audience.