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"                      <p class=\"imgtitle\">Cochran</p>           <em>\"What I would do is keep, as we have today, state responsibility for those that are uninsured. You see I believe in the 10th Amendment. I believe the states have responsibility to care for their people in the way they feel best.\"</em><br /><br />So said Mitt Romney, Republican candidate for President, in his most detailed speech on health care policy to date. Speaking in Orlando under a banner announcing, \"Repeal & Replace Obamacare,\" Romney pledged to replace Obamacare in several steps. Most importantly for my purposes, here is what Mitt Romney did and did not do:<br /><br />- He pledged to uphold and protect the 10th Amendment in all of his health care policy decisions.<br /><br />- He did not criticize Americans for exercising their 7th Amendment right to ask a jury to hold health care professionals responsible for deadly medical errors. He didn't even mention civil suits.<br /><br />- He was not inconsistent or hypocritical with the 10th Amendment by simultaneously proposing to crush states' and individual rights by instituting unconstitutional federal medmal limits.<br /><br />- He did not back the efforts by health care companies, their associations, or their Beltway allies to enact such laws.<br /><br />- He did not promise to reward the pro-Obamacare health care associations, the very groups that shoved Obamacare down our throats through their secret deals and lobbying, with another special deal to immunize them from civil liability.<br /><br />- He did not associate himself with the doctors in Congress who are trying to enact special interest legislation to protect their industry from accountability and responsibility through federal tort reform.<br /><br />- And he did not commit to using a phony CBO estimate of budget \"savings\" from medical malpractice limits as a way to pay for other budget items.<br /><br />Now I know that as Massachusetts Governor, Mitt Romney enacted statewide limits on awards in medical malpractice lawsuits.<br /><br />I also know that his campaign website includes a proposal to \"Cap non-economic damages in medical malpractice lawsuits.\"<br /><br />So which Mitt Romney would be president?<br /><br />Is it the self-proclaimed protector of states' rights? Or is it the former governor who unabashedly closed state courthouse doors to victims of deadly medical errors? Will he convert into a true federalist?<br /><br />Mitt Romney? We'll see..."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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