ROMNEY IS WHAT THE COUNTRY NEEDS RIGHT NOW, Ann Coulter@townhall.com

[AmericanMorn]

Ann has done a beautiful job here of pointing out all the ramifactions of Obamacare.
While there are many reasons that America needs Governor Romney, I agree with her
that ending this oppressive program is most important.

The following three paragraphs are actually at the end of her column but I was so
taken by the originality, flow and truth of her words I felt they deserved top
billing....AM

"Romney is the Red Adair of his profession. He's like a doctor who specializes in
multiple gunshot wounds or an oncologist who takes only Stage 4 cancer patients. Yes,
there were layoffs, but also lots and lots of jobs, profit, success, efficiency,
saved businesses and saved lives.

"Romney will be the most accomplished incoming president since Dwight Eisenhower.

Not only has Romney promised to issue a 50-state waiver from Obamacare on his first
day in office and then seek a formal repeal and replacement, but he'll know how to do
it. The savior of dying companies will fix health care in this country so that no
Democrat will be able to wreck it again."


ROMNEY IS WHAT THE COUNTRY NEEDS RIGHT NOW
Ann Coulter, November 1, 2012


The single most important issue in this election is ending the national nightmare of
Obamacare.

If Obamacare is not stopped, it will permanently change the political culture of this
country. There will be no going back. America will become a less productive, less
wealthy nation. What wealth remains will have to be plowed into Obamacare -- to the
delight only of the tens of thousands of government bureaucrats administering it.

There won't be one moment marking the end of America. Everything will just gradually
get worse, like trains and the tax code, until a bustling, prosperous nation is as
distant a memory as pleasurable train travel and one-page tax returns.

The reason we have Obamacare is not because the public was clamoring for the federal
government to take over health care. It's because the Democrats had 60 senators. In
the frozen ideology of the left, it doesn't matter if anyone wants government health
care.

Democrats had been waiting around for 50 years to win huge majorities in the House
and Senate and the presidency, so they could check off this box on "FDR's Unfinished
Business."

Unlike all other major legislation in the nation's history, Obamacare was passed
exclusively by one party that had just won an aberrationally large majority in
Congress. Not a single Republican in either the House or Senate voted for it.

Republicans have passed legislation on such partisan votes, too, but never something
that would fundamentally change the lives of every living American. Nationalizing
one-sixth of the economy is not the kind of thing that should be passed by one party
sneering, "Ha, ha -- we have 60 votes!"

As soon as all Americans have been thrown off their employer-provided insurance plans
and are forced to start depending on the government for health care, Republicans will
never be able to repeal it.

The private insurance market will be gone. Most Americans won't be able to conceive
of getting health care that doesn't come from the government -- just as people in the
Soviet Union couldn't imagine how they'd get bread if the government didn't provide
it.

(Also similar to Communist systems, you'll have to know someone in power to get
decent medical care.)

A powerful health care Leviathan will arise, composed of self-paced, well-pensioned,
unionized government workers who will manage our health care from 10 a.m.-3 p.m.,
except federal holidays, sick days, mental health days and in bad weather. (The day
after Hurricane Sandy, everything was open on the mostly unaffected Upper East Side
of New York -- but not the post office.)

This new phalanx of government workers will spend the bulk of their time campaigning
to ensure the election of more Democrats who promise to lessen their workload and
increase their benefits. Even Republicans will have to run for office promising only
to enlarge Obamacare. Newt Gingrich will be calling plans to alter Obamacare
"right-wing social engineering."

The Democrats' idea for funding their endless government programs is always the same:
Tax the rich, and just keep taxing them, no matter how high taxes have to be raised.
One thing all such people have in common is that they've never had a real job,
meaning a job from which you can be fired. Not Bernie Sanders, not Barack Obama, not
Joe Biden, not Chuck Schumer and on and on.

Such people simply cannot grasp that doubling tax rates will not double government
revenues because people won't work as hard for half the money. Their ideas about tax
policy will put America on a high-speed train to government deficits rivaling Greece.
We'll be a country with no military, no wealth and no hope.

Even before the train wreck of Obamacare, health care was half-a-disaster because
that's the percentage of medical care in this country that was already provided by
the government -- via Medicare, Medicaid, Veterans hospitals and other public
hospitals.

In 2008, a single county in Florida -- Miami-Dade -- received more money in Medicare
home health care payments than the entire rest of the country combined. This
continued throughout the entire year and was finally noticed by our Department of
Health and Human Services in December 2009.

Do you think it would take a private insurer two years to catch onto the fact that
health care claims coming from a single county in Florida were larger than the rest
of the country combined?

Lifelong politicians haven't the first idea what an efficient, operating system would
even look like. If only we had a presidential candidate who had spent his life
working in the private sector ...

The way to fix health care is to take as much as possible away from the government
and give it to the private sector. It is a universal law of nature that everything
run by the government gets worse and more expensive over time -- the postal service,
airport security and Amtrak. Everything run by the private sector gets better and
cheaper over time -- cellphones, computers, hair products, dishwashers, etc.

You know who specializes in rescuing failing enterprises and making things work? Mitt
Romney.

Contrary to ignorant slanders about Romney's private sector work, his specialty was
not buying thriving companies and stripping them for parts. Rather, the Bain Capital
model was to take companies that were on the verge of collapse -- about to cut all
jobs, pensions and health care for their workers -- and save the business.

Romney is the Red Adair of his profession. He's like a doctor who specializes in
multiple gunshot wounds or an oncologist who takes only Stage 4 cancer patients. Yes,
there were layoffs, but also lots and lots of jobs, profit, success, efficiency,
saved businesses and saved lives.

Romney will be the most accomplished incoming president since Dwight Eisenhower.

Not only has Romney promised to issue a 50-state waiver from Obamacare on his first
day in office and then seek a formal repeal and replacement, but he'll know how to do
it. The savior of dying companies will fix health care in this country so that no
Democrat will be able to wreck it again.


Ann Coulter is a columnist and author of Guilty: Liberal Victims and Their Assault On
America, Demonic and Mugged.

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