Healthcare: It should be up to the States!

I here a lot of people saying that Obamacare will hurt Mitt in 2012: To that I need to do no more than to explain a few differences between ObamaCare and RomneyCare since it seems to be everyone's main point of contention against Romney. The form of government upon which this nation was founded was a decentralized federal republic with power designed to reside within the individual states and a limited federal government with very specific and enumerated powers and authorities. The specific design of this nation was to allow power to reside within the states to do as they (the states) felt was in the best interest of it's citizenry and to restrict the power of the federal government. As a governor in Massachusetts Romney helped craft a health care system that the people in Massachusetts desired and more importantly only impacted the citizens of Massachusetts. Ultimately, his plans were hijacked by the huge numbers of liberals and progressives in the state and the end product hardly resembled what Romney had initially proposed. The point here is that this was the action of a state and not the demands of the federal government which is exactly where these types of things should be experimented with. The states were designed to be laboratories of democracy where ideas could be tried and implemented and where they would not impact the entire nation. Romney has correctly identified that the federal government does not, nor should it, have the authority to implement such a plan on the national level as is specifically stated in the tenth amendment to the Constitution. So yes, the health plan in MA didn't work out as intended but the rest of country is not adversely affected by Massachusetts plan, as it should not be. Massachusetts can now go back and see what works, what doesn't work and has the autonomy and authority to make the necessary changes as they see fit. I would assume that if Romney's plan had been implemented without all of the extra spending and entitlements that the democrats added to the bill that it would have worked much better. None the less, at the end of the day this should be a state issue! As for Romney, here is a guy that has spent his entire professional career fixing broken institutions. He made a living by helping to fix companies that were struggling and making them successful thus creating thousands of jobs, he took an Olympic Games rotten with corruption and financially upside down and made it profitable and perhaps the most successful winter games in history, he took a state that was out of control, hemorrhaging money with deficits as far as the eye could see and balanced the budget and left office with a surplus. Here is a guy that has been prepared like no other person in the political arena to deal with the problems that now face our country and is in a unique position to put us back on the right track of growing the economy, creating jobs and restoring the American Dream for us and many generations to come!If you ask me, I have full faith in Mitt Romney to successfully lead our country out of this mess that we find ourselves in right now.


Romney for President
2012!!!