As we draw nearer and nearer to the 2010 Republican primaries, it is shaping up to be a ‘Romney Vs. Obama‘ match up.  There are already 2 unquestionable issues that Romney will be able to hit Obama on, that no other candidate can.

1. Health Care
2. The bailout of Ford, GM, and Chrysler

Romney called upon Obama to NOT give the ‘big three’ a bailout and urged in an article he penned in The New York Times titled Let Detroit Go Bankrupt,  that Detroit needed to restructure and file for a chapter 11 bankruptcy rather than receive a bailout from the American taxpayer.  Obama decided to bail out the ‘Big Three’ toward the end of 2008 and has since acknowledged that there is a need to restructure.  Now the Government owns 70% if GM!  AND…BILLIONS of taxpayer’s dollars have been waisted.

Romney has already put in place a universal health care plan that does not give more power to the government and is not a “government takeover of health care.  In fact, after Obamacare got such bad feedback from both Republicans and Conservative leaning Democrats in Congress, Obama decided to take a few ideas from Romney’s Massachusetts health care plan.

Let’s look at Eric Fehrnstrom’s points he made on the health care plan in a recent Boston Herals article title Single-Payer Simplistic:

Liberals attack it because it’s not single-payer, and some conservatives object to the individual mandate, but 69 percent of the public expressed its approval in a recent survey. It passed with support of the business community, hospitals, private insurers, Republicans and Democrats. In the 200-member Legislature, there were two dissenting votes, a bipartisan miracle.

The market-driven Massachusetts approach is simple: Strip away regulations to lower the cost of private policies, require everyone to have coverage just as they must for their autos, and convert the money we already spend on free care into subsidies to help the needy buy insurance.

Is it perfect? No, like any bold experiment, it’s going to require fine-tuning. But already some of its best features are being copied by President Barack Obama, such as a health insurance exchange where individuals and small businesses can shop for affordable plans.

Critics who complain about the cost of the subsidies overlook the progress in reducing state payments for free care, a nearly 40 percent drop from $661 million in 2007 to $410 million in 2008. Having achieved near-total coverage, there’s no reason Gov. Deval Patrick can’t further reduce that number. He can drive costs down even more by making adjustments in benefits and by requiring everyone to contribute something to the cost of their insurance.

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