>From a G+ post by David Brin:
David Brin <https://plus.google.com/u/0/116665417191671711571> Shared publiclyYesterday 11:21 PM<https://plus.google.com/u/0/116665417191671711571/posts/VUfKWEVQ5Nv> Rediscovered and now circulating - much to Republican embarrassment - is the signing ceremony, April 12, 2006, for the crowning achievement of Mitt Romney's governorship -- a health insurance plan almost identical to "Obamacare" that has been working very well in that state, ever since, and that was in fact the template from which the Affordable Care Act was modeled. At the ceremony, the head of the Heritage Foundation -- the elite think tank of conservatism -- crowed over the role his group had played in designing "Romneycare" based in the earlier Republican Party Health Plan, proposed in the 1990s by Newt Gingrich and his party. A plan for individual mandates and insurance buying markets or "exchanges" that in fact originated at the Heritage think tank and that was touted as a way to use market forces to solve the problem of the uninsured. A plan that President Obama and the Democrats cloned almost exactly, under deluded thinking that if they proposed the Republicans' OWN plan, that would draw Republicans into negotiating calmly about how to institute their own damn plan. A delusion of mega proportions, proving that Democratic optimists can sometimes be almost as crazy as their lunatic opponents. Who now screech "communism!" at their own damn plan. Watch the video of how proud Heritage was, of a health care plan they devised, and now call communism. Again, this is not about left or right. It is about crazy. http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2011/10/27/the_heritage_foundation_and_romneycare_cont_d.html http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/04/10/90621/heritage-romneycare/ = <http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2011/10/27/the_heritage_foundation_and_romneycare_cont_d.html> The Heritage Foundation and Romneycare, Cont'd<http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2011/10/27/the_heritage_foundation_and_romneycare_cont_d.html> slate.com<http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2011/10/27/the_heritage_foundation_and_romneycare_cont_d.html> *http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2011/10/27/the_heritage_foundation_and_romneycare_cont_d.html <http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2011/10/27/the_heritage_foundation_and_romneycare_cont_d.html>* -- Larry C. Lyons web: http://www.lyonsmorris.com/lyons LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/larrycly ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:368609 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
