If I were president, on Day One I would issue an executive order paving the way for Obamacare waiver

[Suburban Warrior]

I guess John Boehner thought we forgot about this:

If I Were President: Obamacare, One Year In
By Mitt Romney
March 22, 2011 8:20 PM

If I were president, on Day One I would issue an executive order paving the way for Obamacare waivers to all 50 states. The executive order would direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services and all relevant federal officials to return the maximum possible authority to the states to innovate and design health-care solutions that work best for them.

As I have stated time and again, a one-size-fits-all national plan that raises taxes is simply not the answer. Under our federalist system, the states are “laboratories of democracy.” They should be free to experiment. By the way, what works in one state may not be the answer for another. Of course, the ultimate goal is to repeal Obamacare and replace it with free-market reforms that promote competition and lower health-care costs. But since an outright repeal would take time, an executive order is the first step in returning power to the states.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/262800/if-i-were-president-obamacare-one-year-mitt-romney

[Turbineguy]

1. He left out the part about

what he would do about all the people moving to states that would keep Obamacre.

[TeamPooka]

2. I'd reschedule cannabis from a Class I drug and change the prison system

overnight with that one move.

[JayhawkSD]

3. We tried that with the welfare system many years ago.

Some states had generous welfare benefits and high taxes. Other states had almost no welfare benefits and low taxes. People who did not want to work for a living moved to the first set of states, which worked out well because all of the businesses had moved out of those states and there were no jobs there. People who did want to work moved to the second set of states, where there were lots of jobs. We found out we needed to federal government to level the playing field and prevent the states from devouring each other.