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Mass. Health Connector Director: HCR “Very Good for Massachusetts”

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In response to the question “Is this good or bad for Massachusetts?” on the Globe’s Boston.com chat about the passage of the Federal Health Care Reform Bill, Jon Kingsdale, the Romney appointed director of the Massachusetts Health Care Connector had this to say:

“This is very good for Massachusetts for at least three major reasons. First, it assures continued federal financial support for all the elements of reform we currently enjoy. Second, it significantly increases federal support for important groups of people … seniors, Medicare Rx donut hole, households earning between 300 and 400 of the federal poverty level. Third, substantial budget relief to the state from increasing the federal share of our current spending on health reform.”  

Curious to hear the reasoning behind Senator Scott Brown’s statement that this law is bad for Massachusetts and that he will vote to repeal it.

BTW: I don’t really care what Romney thinks – does anyone else?

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  1. I want him to tell every electrician, plumber and/or carpenter working for themselves or have a family business that he wants to take away their tax credit to get health insurance.  I want him to tell anyone working under contract and not with a large employer that they should not get the same benefits of tax credits that those who work in large companies get.

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    p>I want to see Senator Brown explain that it’s bad for the people of Massachusetts that those who have a small business that will get a 35% tax credit than jumps to 50% in 2014 that is bad for them.

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    p>This, plus it will reduce the deficit and it will extend the life of Medicare.

  2. Talk all you want about people’s health, but HCR makes us a socialist country!

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    p>It may start innocently enough with a turn your head and cough, but the next thing you know we’ll be turning our children over to the Party to be raised in dormitories. They’ll spend summers at camp calling each other “comrade,” singing the Internationale, and reading Lenin.

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    p>It’s over, America! It’s over!

  3. He’s voting against his state’s interests, and if wants to vote a red party line, he will marginalize himself and become cannon fodder by 2012.  

  4. Actually I do care what Romney thinks, or what he says he thinks.  Since the national plan just adopted is in key respects “his” plan, he could reasonably more-or-less endorse it, and undercut the repeal pressure.  That’s what he should do by any calculation except one in which he has a good chance of becoming president if he doesn’t.  I’m afraid he’ll get this wrong, though.

      • I reccomend traveling back in time to read this Globe article from April 2006, days before the bill was signed:
        http://www.krowenlaw.com/massb…

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        p>A couple of highlights:

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        The 145-page bill is the result of more than four months of occasionally bitter negotiations. It melds ideas from the House, the Senate, and Romney, who put forth competing healthcare plans last year that have often seemed irreconcilable. The bill appears headed for law, given that Romney yesterday called it ”exactly what we’d hoped for.”

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        “Today, Massachusetts has set itself apart from every other state in the country,” Romney said. “An achievement like this comes once in a generation.”

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        p>MA didn’t pass single payer or even rate regulation four years ago.  The reform was a true compromise that most stakeholders and Romney supported, even though he already knew he was going to run in the GOP Presidential primary.

    • President Obama’s healthcare bill is unhealthy for America. Without a single Republican vote in the House or the Senate, he pushed through a bill that millions of Americans do not want, and for which we cannot conceivably pay.

      Health care reform shouldn’t mean higher taxes, cuts to our seniors on Medicare, insurance price controls or greater federal involvement in our lives. But unfortunately that’s just what we’re getting.

      America has been taken down the wrong path by President Obama and the Democrats in Congress, which is why it’s critical we elect fiscally-responsible conservative leaders in November who will repeal this bill and restore commonsense principles to healthcare.

      That is why I am writing to you today to announce a new initiative at my Free and Strong America PAC called “Prescription for Repeal.” Over the coming weeks and months, my PAC will be providing GOP candidates with the support and funding they need to defeat Democrats who supported ObamaCare.

      Will you stand with me in this effort with a generous contribution of $25, $50, $100, $250, $500, $1,000, $2,500, or even the maximum $5,000 ? It is only with your support, and the support of Americans like you across the country, that we can make our voices heard and effect the real change that Americans deserve.

      It is up to us to leave our children and grandchildren an America that is as strong and prosperous as the one we inherited from our parents, and what we do at times like these is critical. I hope you will stand with me today.

      Best,

      Mitt Romney

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      p>Hey Mitt do I get a commemorative plate or something with my donation?

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