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Former GOP presidential candidate and Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney on Sunday said he wished he could go back in time when asked about Obamacare and the 2012 election.
"I don't know. I wish I could go back and turn back the clock and take another try," he said on "Fox News Sunday" when asked if he felt he would have won the 2012 election if President Obama had not told Americans that they would be all able to be able to keep their current plans under the health care law -- a claim that in many cases turned out not to be the case.
Romney added that he is trying not to focus on the past, though.
"But history is in the past, and I'm not going to worry about what could have happened. What I am worried about, is that you have a lot of people who are going to find their premiums going through the roof," he said. "They're going to find that the doctor they've had, they can't keep. They're going to find the policies they were promised they could have, they're not going to be able to keep. And the American people are going to be very, very upset about that."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/mitt-romney-wishes-turn-back-clock
Siwsan
(26,263 posts)He's quite a one-trick pony.
wercal
(1,370 posts)Journeyman
(15,034 posts)Fortunately, his understanding of history is not clouded with worry about "what could have happened." He prefers to cloud his future with concerns about issues that are not going to arise. And in the process, he loses sight completely of what actually happened, and more importantly, what is happening now.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)"a claim that in many cases turned out not to be the case."
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)"If only the people saw that companies are people too" "If only I had binders full of women to tell me what to say about women's rights"
"If only my family wasn't so creepy".
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Ann Romney's feet are a horror show all by themselves. That picture with the black grandbaby showed her feet, and they would scare the devil himself.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)I know there has been a lot of talk about it, and Melissa Perry may still lose her job over it.
Cha
(297,261 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)nyquil_man
(1,443 posts)What's ridiculous is not that he didn't win. What's ridiculous is that he came that close to winning.
JHB
(37,160 posts)Very telling of what sort of man he is that at this late date he thinks that was how he lost the election. Nothing he did, of course, just a "lie" that the other side "got away with".
Never forget that we'd be militarily involved in Syria by now, with plans underway for war with Iran, if Romney and the neocons running his foreign policy were in office.
TeamPooka
(24,228 posts)malaise
(269,020 posts)his loss?
Fugg that lying sack of ReTHUG crap.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)If we are fortunate he will take action and actually run again.
reformist2
(9,841 posts)truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)but I am surely tired of seeing his weaselly face and listening to his vapid pronouncements.
OTOH, it would be fun to see the Republican party in even more disarray than we can already expect.
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)lumpy
(13,704 posts)n
politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)My doctor left my health care plan last year. I belong to an HMO. Had nothing to do with Obamacare. I had her for 5 years, liked her alot and she left the organization. And guess what, they assigned me a new doctor and as much as I liked my old doctor, I like my new doctor just as well.
The idea that you are going to have your own doctor for life is a fantasy in this modern age. Doctors move around just like their patients do. We are a mobile society and we all just have to accept the fact that our doctor doesn't belong to me. Even within my own health plan, if I have a problem, I can make an appointment with my own doctor or go to their urgent care the same day, without an appointment, and usually be seen within a reasonable amount of time. My doctor has other patients besides me and if I have an urgent problem, chances are he can't see me that same day. If presented with the fact that I a plan doctor can see me within the hour or my primary doctor can see me in 2 days, I would choose the same day appointment since I have no chronic illnesses. My co-workers feel as I do. Most of us in need of a doctor just want to get in and out and be on our way to recovery. The days of Dr. Welby where you can call your personal physician and he tells you to come on in right now and he's just waiting for you to get there more likely than not, doesn't exist in the real world.
If I had a chronic and serious illness, I obviously might feel different. Thank goodness I don't.