Mitt Romney's defense of RomneyCare gives him a broccoli problem

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"Mitt Romney rejected Mike Huckabee's call for him to admit that the "RomneyCare" health care program failed, instead saying he's "proud" of "getting everyone covered" when he was governor of Massachusetts.

'Mitt Romney is proud of what he accomplished for Massachusetts in getting everyone covered,' Romney’s spokesman, Eric Fehrnstrom, told the Boston Globe, in the first direct response Team Mitt made to Huckabee's criticism of the health plan in his new book.

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...it leaves Romney with the so-called Broccoli Problem. The Broccoli Problem is the centerpiece of the conservative argument against the constitutionality of health care reform. They argue that if the commerce clause gives the federal government authority to force people to buy health care, it gives the federal government authority to force people to buy anything -- even broccoli.

Now this is a bullshit argument. Those who believe the individual mandate is constitutional do not believe the government has the authority to force the public to buy broccoli. Health insurance is a unique commodity because everybody gets some form of health care whether or not they have insurance. As Judge Gladys Kessler argued in her ruling upholding the individual mandate, the decision to not buy health insurance is every bit as significant to commerce as the decision to buy insurance. The same can't be said of broccoli."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/25/948500/-Mitt-Romneys-defense-of-RomneyCare-gives-him-a-broccoli-problem?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos%29

You let them force you to buy broccoli, next it's cauliflower. And meanwhile, people are marrying alarm clocks...

[WhiteTara]

1. and it's raining cats and dogs. n/t

[SpiralHawk]

2. The Romster (R) needs to try the Arugula Gambit

That worked so beautifully, um, for another Bay State Gubernator.

[Darth_Kitten]

3. does this have something to do with, er, gas?

Natural end result of broccoli and cauliflower. :hide: