• darkpanda@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    “Romneycare” was already taken, and as an uninformed Canadian, isn’t it basically similar?

    • scarabine@lemmynsfw.com
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      3 days ago

      It’s the same thing but (and I may be mistaken on this) I think Romneycare is actually a little better? They weren’t able to implement a single payer option on the ACA because Joe Lieberman sabotaged it, but I assume he wasn’t able to sabotage it on the original draft Romney put through in his version

    • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 days ago

      Yes. So similar in fact that Romneycare basically never changed in its original state of Massachusetts. All the systems set up for Romneycare were copied at the national level.