Father Of -OBAMACARE- On Verge Of Officially Becoming - The PRESUMPTIVE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE

[kpete]

TUE APR 24, 2012 AT 08:01 AM PDT
Father of Obamacare on verge of officially becoming the presumptive Republican nominee
byJed Lewison



If Tuesday brings victory for Mitt Romney in Pennsylvania, it'll finally be official:

In an interview with ABC News in Scottsdale, Ariz., RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said that “Tuesday is going to be very important” as the committee moves to “further accelerate the communication between the RNC and Governor Romney’s campaign.”

While Priebus said the RNC would continue to “show respect” for former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Rep. Ron Paul, Tuesday’s primaries will pave the way toward a “complete and total merger between the RNC and the presumptive nominee.”

That means continuing to link up fundraising — a process that has already started — as well as integrating the RNC and the campaign’s communications shops, their political, ground and get-out-the-vote operations.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/mitt-romneys-one-moment-in-time-the-note/

So, congratulations, GOP. You just won yourself the father of Obamacare.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/23/1085802/-Father-of-Obamacare-on-verge-of-officially-becoming-the-presumptive-Republican-nominee

[frazzled]

1. You know, Romney gets far too much credit for this

I lived in Massachusetts and knew some (progressive) policy makers: they'd been working on health care reform there for years. Since the Massachusetts state government is entirely controlled by "Democrats" (though that includes some very conservative Democrats who would otherwise be known as Republican on fiscal issues), some kind of health insurance reform was going to happen. Romney responded to it out of necessity for what was inevitable.

The architect of the plan Romney ended up endorsing was Jonathan Gruber, an MIT economist. "Gruber is known for his research on the areas of public finance and health economics. He is a co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics, an Associate Editor of the Journal of Health Economics, and the author of the widely used textbook, Public Finance and Public Policy. In 2006, he received the American Society of Health Economists Inaugural Medal for the best health economist in the nation aged 40 and under.[10] He was elected a member of the Institute of Medicine in 2005."

[Lawlbringer]

2. Didn't Romney waltz in

and bastardize that, though?