STERLING, Va. -- Mitt Romney reserved some of his harshest criticism of President Barack Obama's health care reform law for the eve of the Supreme Court ruling that will decide its fate, labeling the law as "moral failure" by a president who chose to focus on healthcare, rather than jobs, at a time of national economic crisis.
"His policies were not focused on creating jobs. They were focused on implementing his liberal agenda. There’s nothing wrong with people having an agenda, but when the country’s in crisis, you have a moral responsibility to focus on helping people come out of that crisis," Romney said at a rally here Wednesday evening. "It was not just bad policy; it was a moral failure to put forward a piece of legislation that wouldn’t help Americans get back to work, and to focus the energy of the White House on Obamacare."
With the Supreme Court expected to rule on the constitutionality of the law – which includes the individual mandate -- on Thursday morning, Romney took the opportunity to batter the controversial law before a friendly, energetic audience, suggesting that Obama will spend a sleepless night tonight fretting about the future of the legislation.
"My guess is they're not sleeping real well at the White House tonight. That's the way it ought to be," Romney said. "And this is a decision, by the way, about whether or not Obamacare is constitutional, whether it passes constitutional muster. So we're all waiting to see how the court will decide, one thing we already know however -- we already know it's bad policy and it's got to go."
Romney went on to preview, as he did at a campaign stop in southern Virginia on Tuesday, his response to the court's possible action on the law. The former Massachusetts governor said that if the law is upheld, he would work to repeal it as president, and if it gets struck down, he would replace it with "real reform." Romney did not specify what such reforms would entail.
Democrats quickly pounced on Romney's critique of the law, pointing out that the federal law was inspired by Massachusetts’s health care law that Romney helped to enact, complete with an individual mandate similar to the one he now assails.
“In Virginia today, Mitt Romney cheered for a repeal of Obamacare, which was modeled after Romney’s own health care law in Massachusetts that he now runs away from," Obama spokeswoman Lis Smith said in the statement. "But Americans won’t be cheering for Mitt Romney after they learn that his plan for health care would allow insurance companies to discriminate against them if they have a pre-existing condition, kick their kids off their parents’ plans when they graduate, and charge women higher premiums than they charge men for the same coverage."


Looks like ole Mittens stepped in a pile of ..it again. maybe it was ..it from his poor DOG.
WHO TOLD YOU THAT IT WAS A FAILURE ? I Am enjoying the benefits of Obama care ever day . My grand children are enjoying the benefits ever day ,we all will if people like you would just go to costa Rica Where they have better healthcare than we do and they have universal healthcare that's where Rush limbaugh said he was going i hope the hell he does . and takes you with him.We are ranked 36 in healthcare and costa rica is ranked 35 when we through in our government run Medicare we become number 1. YOU TELL ME WHAT IS WRONG WITH OBAMAcareYOU KEEP SAYING IT IS A FAILURE WHAT IS WRONG WITH IT ? If someone don't tell you you don't even know. All you know is what a Republican has said . They don't even know.The only thing that can be no matter what the dam supreme court says is the mandate and I don't call that a failure. the supreme court only gves an opiniun .this can be change by another supreme court at a later date and probabley will.
You Romney, you classless , lying, self righteous hypocritical scumbag have no morals. You have sold your soul to the right wing.
Even the right wing has distanced themselves from Mr. Outsource. He's the biggest loser to come along in years. Mormons believe in adolescent prophets. What a frickin joke! I'd rather he believed in the tooth fairy.
Vegains...you're a bigot.
@Mark-347041
At least Romney has a soul, more then can be said for Nobama
You must be able to do better than that! ROFLMAO!
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Yes Mr. Romney
The Health Care Bill is terrible moral failure, and not just because you passed the model for as Governor of Massachusetts.
The cause of this "moral failure" is wide spread and in your business you have touched every contributing cause.
The bottom line of a business balance sheet for a corporation is the sum total of sales, less cost and ending in profits. The annual report or quarterly report actually contains the livelihood of people, where not one of those people is disloyal to the bottom line, but the business depends on loyalty as much as those people. It is not just some outside investor making a small contribution, when you borrow for corporation that is a "moral obligation". It is to purchase something to make those workers produce more, to even motivate the work force to address the concerns of management. The main weakness of any corporation is the management, and its performance is the first place to look. Most corporations of any size have as much management as it can afford, but neglects to examine those middle managers, having as many managers as anyone ever had, I would write their policy positions, outlook papers, reports, calculations and research papers for those managers so they could look good, and deliver a condensed relaxed and positive sounding report in their endless meetings. The moral here is I do my job well so that I don't have to redo their rejected reports for them. Businesses are always looking away from their moral failures. A business is not the bottom line, but everything in between. Run a business my way and you have no need for MBA's justify their incompetence, and yes no need for managers.
When you did your investments, and closed factories and manufactured false business plans, all you did, and ever did was to add profits for yourself and subtract the needs of everyone else. The company is struggling to look good and trying to make it, and you are having a yard sale out the back door.
In your addiction to effortless profits, swagger and disruption, the sum total of your accomplishments, is a loss, a costly "moral failure".
You sir are no good at running businesses because you are no good at dealing with people except as objects, expenses, overhead.
A human being should you ever know one, has many needs, that they can do for themselves, but there is one need that they need help in, and that is health care, healthcare that MBAs have run up cost in, to that its double other countries, and run so badly by middle managers that the output is far lower that any would expect. The "moral failure" is that much of these business methods do rely on medical knowledge, or treatment, but looks on everything as being a planned manufacturable outcome, as though the patient was not here. It is like having medical care on mannequins.
The profitability of any society includes everything humans need, otherwise any attempt separate the human project from the business plan is "moral failure"
Your History:
But before we are purchased into believing that the Republicans really did not Block Congress for the past four years, (4 Years count them 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012) you are going to have to prove that (1) you have a brain certificate, and (2) that you did not come from outer space and (3) that your economic plan was being developed independent of recession reality over those past years. If not then you will have to acknowledge that you are not part of long term plan to turn the Presidency over to the financial bastards that created this problem in the first place. There is no other way to explain your existence!
We all went to business school, some with the intention of bettering the world, but many hell bent on obscene riches. If, as we have long suspected, that the first Republican attacks started when it was arranged in 2007 for Eliot Spritzer's down fall while he was investigating Wall Street fraud. Nothing quite as good as worked so well.
The after seeing that the mortgage investment fraud was about to be discovered, and that the 2008 Election was not going their way, the plan was to guide the economic crash during the 2008 election to persuade the worried that it was Obama fault, and that the Republicans could hand the Election to McCain, but McCain Failed. When that did work, the plan was to distract us with Madoff scam. But as it turned out the Bush Administration had to react with the TARP. But the 2008 Election did not go as planned. The crash play out on the Wall Street and did not go as planned, and required the Federal Reserve to help stem the tide to the tune of Credit Default Swap (ISDA) losses of 64 Trillion (look it up). Once it became apparent that Obama was going to take office and that the financial community was in the pocket, it was decided by Republicans that their long term takeover of the country was going to be delayed, Obama was targeted the obvious scape goat, if readymade - fine, if not he could be made from whole cloth fabricated from a Republican plan. If the Republicans could make Obama appear as puppet on a string, he would not discover the true nature of the Republican plan.
It really so simple, hang him with every hatefulness known to man (rush), lure him into making a heath care plan to save the economy, knowing that the public could be stampeded as they have been twice before by fear, put so much capital into private hands that businesses could have profits and have cash in hand for four long years. So the Republicans, planned from the start, make to the President Fail (Against the wishes of the voting American people, the Republicans sought to make the President of Our United States of Fail). Republicans then persuaded the Supreme Court to enable free and anonymous campaign donations from nameless corporate billions to buy the next election, all with a lousy smirk on their face.
The problem you have is that you picked the wrong fall guy, this man has not been the push pin that you could move off the map. President has resisted the temptation drop to your level, and has stood so strong against Republicans; he will go down in history as the Great America President.
I am going to predict that you will win, and the when you take office, you will suffer exactly the same crop of hated and failure that you and Republican friends have so willing delivered to this President. Yes you will have a Presidency and it will appear as glorious and elegant as any in history. The one problem that you won't be able to hide is that fact that every platform you speak will be preceded by an advertisement of your success, and accompanied by a parade of logos while speaking and followed by trailing advertisement to your holy greatness.
In the end your failure will be great and as long lasting as your life that you spent in making others fail.
Obama's life is a failure, lol. Anyway, Mittens, get back to your tax money encrusted slave build mansion. Obummer, get back to your mud hut with bugs out in Africa.
Ron Paul 2012! We need a real American for the people. He is the only one looking out for us.
I wish you'd learn how to spell a decent ID so we could properly lambaste you!
RON PAUL? ROFLMAO! The biggest loser of all! He might get 2% of the vote, if he's lucky!
Yawn. We libertarians (And Ron Paul) actually care about the future of this country. Not you hippie liberal douchbags, nor you conservative redneck trash. We know the constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Ron Paul 2012! We need a real American for the people. He is the only one looking out for us.
re - I don't think you heard the news....
A liar, cheat and loser. Mitt Romney is the king of negative. Obama is trying to get more Americans health care and Mitt the corporate raider, the king of outsourcing, says Obama's health care initiative is a moral failure?
Where are all those jobs G.O.P? Now that's a moral failure! No work after an entire year of campaigning on more jobs from all the republican moral failures!
What a terrible human being this guy is - and an awful politician too! If he didn't have so much money there is no way he would be a candidate because he has zero appeal on so many levels - the first and obvious one being he has no center and he is full of crap! He has no "new" or "better" ideas - just the same ol' BS GOP trickle down economics. zzzzzz......it doesn't work and not only does it not work - its a PROVEN disaster! He has no military cred and aside from making himself and his 1 percent friends money - he has done nothing else to write home about. He won't run on his record as Governor of Massachusetts because he failed there too. All he can do is criticize our President - and his main criticism is for something he did himself! HUH? Who is defending this joker on these boards? Not looking good for the GOP, folks.
Yeah Mitt, it's a real moral failure when you try to help the have nots as opposed to the rich and corporate America. You're a moral failure on any level,you douchebag.
and the other side of his brain that controls what blows out his butt says: I gave MA the same great mandate program and made it the best covered state while everyone saved money and is healthier there! so what comes out mitt's butt makes more sense than hot air his mouth expels!
So, can't wait for the replay reel after Mitt is defeated in November, so he can see, first hand, where he continually failed the American people by his lack of leadership, consistency and compassion. And now he's playing politics...and poorly!
Why are we polarized over the insurance mandate when it actually makes us pay our debts; and gives help and dignity to millions of uninsured Americans?"The insurance mandate is socialism, plain and simple." If it's socialism, you'd have to buy it from the government, which would also tell you what doctor or hospital to go to. But you can buy health insurance from anybody, and you can get treated by the doctor and hospital you want. What's socialist about that? "Can't you see, the government is making us buy insurance. We have no choice in the matter."Do you have a choice not to get hurt, or not to get sick? Why then do you want a choice not to have insurance to pay for it when you do?States in fact already have an individual mandate for car insurance, and they have been putting uninsured drivers in jail for years. "That's different. Driving is a privilege." Then free health care must be a right in your book. Maybe this idea came from hospitals continuing to treat the uninsured the last half century. The trade off to us living in a civilized society is that we have to follow rules we don't agree with. In return, we get great many things, including goods and services that otherwise would be unavailable. But, we still have to pay for them. The mandate makes sure that we do.What's wrong with that?
He's one to talk about moral failure. His freaking party is responsible for the recession and they wouldn't even acknowledge the problem existed for two years while W was in charge.
And maybe the problems are actually related -- a lot of people without jobs means a lot of people without insurance who can't afford the premiums charged by the insurance companies that are bankrolling the Repug's campaign to get the law repealed!
We all know that Romney is a moderate playing the role of conservative this election. The hypocrisy is stunning, but giving a moral lecture to a man who just gave lots of people with preexisting conditions HOPE for the first time in decades is quite a stretch.
I wish I could sit down with each individual American and go over what this law really means without all the conservative confusion and white noise. I doubt the average Joe would object if faced with the truth of the matter. But that's the only real conservative strategy. Lies and confusion.
"Moral failure?? Trying to provide affordable healthcare to millions of people who cannot afford health insurance is a moral failure?? Let me tell you what a moral failure is: starting 2 wars that last 9+years at a cost of 2+trillion, no funding for that war, tax breaks instead of paying for the war, 6000+American soldiers in caskets, 12 times that in Iraqis, 20,000 servicemen with limbs missing. Sadam gone so that a vacuum is created in that area of the world and guess who surfaces?? Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Thankyou George Bush, Dick Chaney, and Donald Rumsfield for an even greater MORAL FAILURE. And Rep Paul Ryan say that the reason we are in so much debt is because of entitlements to Americans?? Cut 6 trillion in entitlements over 10 years with NO tax increases?? How many Americans would be affected by that MORAL FAILURE??"
Who cares. Bush is not running for President.
What else would you expect from the complete failure obama ... Something SUCCESSFUL???
See me tomorrow
Post-modernism: there is not such thing as objective truth.
Romney is the post-modern presidential candidate!
Romneys an ass.
An interesting statement coming from a corporate pillager from Bain Capitol, whose job was eliminating jobs in order to make a buck. Moral failure? Please...
It will be upheld by the Supreme Court tomorrow!
RomneyCare/ObamaCare will be upheld and Mitt Romney will finally self deport himself to Alaska and Sarah Palins Death panels !
They will both go up to Romney's Planet!
Moral failure? Modeled after your own plan? You conservatives make me puke and you all high and mighty with your god are the moral equivolent of pond scum. I hope the hell you talk about for others exists because it is there for you.
This Affordable Health Care plan is really based on humanitarianism. I'm in!
If anybody should know what a 'moral failure' is, its Mitt.
There was this quote in the MSNBC article, “In Virginia today, Mitt Romney cheered for a repeal of Obamacare, which was modeled after Romney’s own health care law in Massachusetts that he now runs away from," Obama spokeswoman Lis Smith said in the statement. "But Americans won’t be cheering for Mitt Romney after they learn that his plan for health care would allow insurance companies to discriminate against them if they have a pre-existing condition, kick their kids off their parents’ plans when they graduate, and charge women higher premiums than they charge men for the same coverage."
It obvious that Lis Smith is as big a liar as her boss the liar in chief. The Republican plan specifically states that insurance companies must cover people with pre-existing conditions. That is her first lie.
Regarding the college student who gets kicked off of his parents' insurance. Based on income level he would receive federal credits and possibly subsidies (depending on marital status and income) toward insurance. The Heritage Foundation outlines these subsidy rates. They would be up to $3500 in credit and $5500 in subsidy for a family below 133% of the poverty level This single graduate would receive a $2000 credit up to an income level of 400% of the poverty level for health care (insurance), we are talking up to $43,000 in income to receive this much credit.
Her second lie is that the student would loss his insurance. As shown above he would receive a credit to apply toward this insurance.
The insurance rate at my employer is no different for women and men. There is nothing in the Republican plan to suggest that women would be charged more. The White House and the Obama Campaign is full of liars.
Heritage Foundation...pure Republican!
I do not see the Democrats resolving our problems. Why don't you take an hour or so and actually read what the Heritage Foundation proposes to resolve our budget and health care issues. You may decide that it makes sense.