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tehvalerie:

This morning on NBC, Mitt Romney said that “there are a number of things that I like” about Obamacare and suggested he would retain: 1. The guarantee that insurance companies couldn’t discriminate against people with pre-exisiting conditions, and 2. The provision that allows young adults to stay on their parents plan.

Just hours later, his campaign quietly told a conservative website that he actually opposes those provisions of Obamacare.

Mindblowingly unsurprising. 

Oy. This constant pandering makes me CRAZY.

Also. You can’t have the preexisting condition provision without the individual mandate. The economics don’t work. People with preexisting conditions are expensive to insure. The only way the insurance market makes economic sense with so many unhealthy people in it is if the pool of healthy people is also increased. Healthy people are less likely to buy insurance if left to their own devices, obviously, because the odds that they will need it are lower and they’d rather save the money and take the risk. The mandate forces healthy people into the pool, which balances out the larger group of people with health problems and means that health insurance remains economically viable for offerors.

Therefore, to oppose the mandate is to oppose the preexisting conditions provision. Romney, who claims to know all about finance and economics and business, should know this full well. I’m sure he does know this full well. Which just highlights the extent of his pandering: claiming he likes a popular provision when he knows perfectly well that it’s not economically viable without the individual mandate that he has promised to overturn on Day 1. Depressing.

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kohenari:

7M Californians had their rights stripped away today by activist 9th Circuit judges. As president I will work to protect marriage.

— Rick Santorum (@RickSantorum) February 7, 2012

It’s not at all interesting or surprising that Rick Santorum opposes the 9th Circuit ruling.

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This post sums up SO PERFECTLY (and concisely!) everything that’s wrong with the “stop judicial activism, give the people the right to pass their own ballot initiatives” bullshit that Prop 8 supporters keep spouting.