{"id":902,"date":"2009-09-27T21:39:09","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T01:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=902"},"modified":"2009-09-27T22:39:52","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T02:39:52","slug":"romneycare-a-major-political-problem-for-mitt-romney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/902\/romneycare-a-major-political-problem-for-mitt-romney\/","title":{"rendered":"RomneyCare, a Major Political Problem for Mitt Romney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Barr, at Politico.com,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0909\/27610.html\" target=\"_blank\">outlines<\/a> a major political problem for former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.\u00a0 A former and presumably future Republican candidate for President in 2012, Romney was front-and-center in pushing through and heralding unprecedented health care insurance expansion in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Barr:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Romney can rightfully boast that he got much what he aimed for, since less than three percent of Massachusetts citizens are currently uninsured.\u00a0 But critics insist that the cost of Romney\u2019s program has far exceeded the governor\u2019s estimates and have targeted the plan as a prime example of what not to do on the national level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven in Massachusetts there are signs of discomfort with the plan:\u00a0 A June Rasmussen Reports poll found that only 26 percent of Massachusetts voters thought the state\u2019s health care reform was a success.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From our periodic scans of Massachusetts media regarding the growing problems with RomneyCare (and its similarities to national proposals), we think he\u2019s got an awful tough row to hoe (as in garden tool, not hip hop slang, can\u2019t be too careful these days) to win the Republican nomination if he just keeps defending the problematic plan, as he seems wont to do.<\/p>\n<p>Still, we think Romney is a smart and honorable man.\u00a0 And wouldn\u2019t it be refreshing (not to mention unique) if he just stood up and said, \u201clook, this was the problem and this is what we tried and it hasn\u2019t worked, and it\u2019s certainly not going to work on a national scale\u201d?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Barr, at Politico.com,\u00a0outlines a major political problem for former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.\u00a0 A former and presumably future Republican candidate for President in 2012, Romney was front-and-center in pushing through and heralding unprecedented health care insurance expansion in the state. Barr:\u00a0 Romney can rightfully boast that he got much what he aimed for, since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,160],"class_list":["post-902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health-care","tag-mitt-romney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":906,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions\/906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}