Domenech Sounds Alarm Over Romney Transition Choice
Ben Domenech of The Heartland Institute reacts to Mitt Romney's choice of former Bush Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt to lead the Romney transition team.
Mike Leavitt, who has been loudly urging every state to implement Obamacare exchanges, will lead Romney transition. vlt.tc/aya- Leavitt is a big proponent of the early implementation of Obamacare exchanges, the state-level apparatus at the core of Obamacare. Most conservatives oppose implementation, on both principle and practical grounds. They want the federal government to implement any exchanges. States who do implement will have to raise taxes to cover their share of the exchanges.Because of a quirk in the law, federal subsidies for health insurance in the exchanges will only kick in if a state implements its exchange. The fewer states who implement their own, the more likely the law will have to be changed, opening it up to large-scale changes of the kind conservatives want.
- Leavitt Partners is the leading group pushing Republicans to implement Obamacare while taking fed tax dollars to do so. vlt.tc/ayb
- Leavitt's status as an Obamacare profiteer has been cemented by repeated criticism of think-tank opponents. vlt.tc/atj
- Leavitt Partners has repeatedly been the lone source of GOP on GOP criticism of failure to implement Obamacare. vlt.tc/ayc
- And again and again, they fail to admit their financial interest in the creation of these exchanges. vlt.tc/ayd
- David Merritt, senior fellow at Leavitt Partners, writing at Daily Caller: Why states should move fwd with exchanges. vlt.tc/aye
- Here's Leavitt, strongly urging all states to implement Obamacare exchanges last year in his remarks to RGA. vlt.tc/ayf
- Here's Leavitt Partners last year rejoicing in the gold mine provided by federal taxpayers to create exchanges. vlt.tc/ayg
- Here's more on consulting structure you fund: "Leavitt's company is invested in exchanges." vlt.tc/ayh
@bdomenech To clarify... So the guy Romney tapped to lead his "transition" backs the core of ObamaCare?- @mattklewis Not only that, he has been one of the primary consultants profiting from implementation at state level.
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Loren HealActually, I'd agree, but the Court is not bound by that. They can do whatever they want. 2012-06-04T01:10:17.715Z
Horizon3SCOTUS can not strike down part of the law, it was written to be non severable, part of it goes .. all of it goes.2012-06-03T23:26:49.737Z
- Loren HealActually, I'd agree, but the Court is not bound by that. They can do whatever they want. 2012-06-04T01:10:17.715Z
- Horizon3SCOTUS can not strike down part of the law, it was written to be non severable, part of it goes .. all of it goes.2012-06-03T23:26:49.737Z
