Romney care vs obama care -don't mixed them up

	RomneyCare	ObamaCare
Overall Size and Scope	-Whole bill was 70 pages -Romney vetoed significant sections of the bill including the employer penalty for not providing health insurance -Romney favored an “opt out” provision from the mandate -No federal gov. insurance option -Intended as a market driven solution to healthcare	-Whole bill was 2,074 pages -Very broad regulation of the insurance industry including an employer penalty for not providing health insurance and no "opt out" provision -Leaves open the option of creating single-payer gov. insurance in the future -Intended as a step toward gov. run insurance
Costs	-No new taxes! -Romney balanced the state’s budget first, then passed healthcare law -No cuts to Medicare benefits -Modest cost to state (only added 1% to state budget)	-Increased taxes by $500 billion -Despite massive federal gov. debt, Obama still passed Obamacare -Cuts Medicare by $500 billion -Overall costs unknown!
Popularity	-Very strong bipartisan support -Strong special interest support -Very popular among the public in Massachusetts -Strong consensus of approval was built in the state to support the law -Consensus was built to support an individual mandate	-Absolutely no bipartisan support -Very controversial and divided special interest groups -Unpopular in nation overall -No consensus was built to support a mandate
Constitutionality	-Constitutional -Regardless of how the Supreme Court rules on Obamacare, Romneycare will remain constitutional	-Potentially unconstitutional -Supreme Court has yet to rule on 10th amendment limitations of federal gov. power in regard to this law
Federalism	-A state solution to a state problem -Through collaboration and discussion, Massachusetts created a consensus among stake holders to support the new law	-Federal gov. “one-size-fits-all” plan -Doesn’t take into account that each state is unique in important ways such as: 1)Vastly different debt levels between states (some states can’t afford new spending on health care) 2)Some states have three times the percentage of uninsured citizens (Much greater costs will be imposed on states with a larger percentage of uninusured citizens) 3)Conservative states will reject implementation of federal gov. plan.