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How about early on the enthusiastic HHS staff crowd's enthusiasm? Off and on, the video showing the audience. Heartwarming, there's no other word for it. A lead-in intro, watch that person into future appointment mischief. Price speaks. Pence speaks. Suits especially seem in tune. Some, but not all audience suits. Watch the crowd shots, few as they are. Tepid applause? You decide.
This link. This one. Another. In terms of that first link, its headline, go back to the video, at about 7 min min into it, talk of individual coverage cost, and at 8:20 or so, mention of a "patient centered" healthcare approach as if Tom Price, not Romney and Heritiage Foundation invented it. This websearch.
More spreading, here. Finally --
Tune time.
UPDATE: History has a way of staying on the books, despite it's turns and tricks and the irony of rebranded backlash rhetoric. Pence is more a biblical scholar and story teller than an accuracy focused historian, while Price knows travel more than travail.
FURTHER: This online analysis; linked to in a NYT Krugman item. Krugman wrote:
The essence of Obamacare, as of Romneycare, is a three-legged stool of regulation and subsidies: community rating requiring insurers to make the same policies available to everyone regardless of health status; an individual mandate, requiring everyone to purchase insurance, so that healthy people don’t opt out; and subsidies to keep insurance affordable for those with lower incomes.
The original Heritage plan from 1989 had all these features.
These days, Heritage strives mightily to deny the obvious; it picks at essentially minor differences between what it used to advocate and the plan Democrats actually passed, and tries to make them seem like a big deal. But this is disinformation. The essential features of the ACA — above all, the mandate — are ideas Republicans used to support.
FURTHER: The essence of both Romney's and Obama's half-assed things is NOT taking the profiteering insurance leeches out of the equation; NOT standing tall on Big Pharma to cease gouging; NOT policing bill kiting by the HMO providing network. NOT, NOT, NOT. Zero as a real answer to the long overdue need of a nation for Single Payer Healthcare As A Right just as civilized nations back in the 20th Century started to provide their populace, as a sane and humane thing.