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The Force is With Me
"... there are no fundamental differences between the two laws. Both programs create exchanges where private insurers compete. Both require individuals to purchase insurance. And both subsidize those who can’t afford it. It’s a relatively new way of extending coverage. Massachusetts was the first place it was adopted, and the Affordable Care Act was the second. The two laws are, in the words of Jonathan Gruber, who helped design both the Romney and Obama plans, “the same fucking bill.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...care-differ-only-in-inconsequential-ways.html
Why doesn't Obama tell you that he simply copied a program created by Mitt (Mr. 47%) Romney and the Heritage Foundation? To repeat, it's the same fucking bill.
White House used Mitt Romney health-care law as blueprint for federal law
Three advisers to GOP candidate met a dozen times with senior Obama officials, records show
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In addition to Obama himself, the meetings attended by Gruber were presided over by the president’s chief economic adviser, Lawrence Summers, then budget director Peter Orzag and Nancy-Ann DeParle, the president’s chief adviser on health care, the records show. Gruber was also given a $380,000 contract by the Obama administration in 2009 to work with Congress on drafting a new federal law based on the Massachusetts law, records show.
The response echoed comments that Romney made last April after Obama suggested the White House had borrowed from his law in Massachusetts.
“He does me the great favor of saying that I was the inspiration of his plan,” Romney said of Obama. “If that’s the case, why didn’t you call me? …Why didn’t you ask what was wrong? Why didn’t you ask if this was an experiment, what worked and what didn’t. … I would have told him, ‘What you’re doing, Mr. President, is going to bankrupt us.’”
Romney is “the father of health-care reform,” said Gruber.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/44854320/...-care-law-blueprint-federal-law/#.UkbRY9L9PJo
Could it be that he doesn't want you to know that neither Romneycare nor Obamacare does anything about medical bankruptcies or to control costs?
Big ‘Romneycare’ secret: It didn’t rein in costs
And although Democrats wouldn’t miss an opportunity to tar Romney’s tenure as governor, trashing the health law would do damage to Obama’s closely related effort. But some who are closely watching Massachusetts are more candid about it — and they say it has some serious problems.
“The reality is it performed very poorly,” said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former Congressional Budget Office director and president of the American Action Forum. He’s one of the most vocal critics of the plan. “A huge mark against it is it didn’t control health care costs at all.”
Health care costs per capita were 27 percent higher in Massachusetts than in the rest of the country in 2004, two years before the state plan was signed, Holtz-Eakin says. By 2009, it was 30 percent higher than the national average.
The law’s failure to rein in health care costs is widely acknowledged by nonpartisan analysts, as well as conservative critics. But there’s more material for critics to work with if either party wanted to use it. For example, emergency room use has gone up, not down — undermining the law’s effort to get that problem under control by expanding coverage
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81837.html#ixzz2gBzJjwig
RomneyCare Didn’t End Medical Bankruptcies
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2011/07/11/romneycare-didnt-end-medical-bankruptcies/
Why is it even called Obamacare when in fact it is expanded Romneycare?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...care-differ-only-in-inconsequential-ways.html
Why doesn't Obama tell you that he simply copied a program created by Mitt (Mr. 47%) Romney and the Heritage Foundation? To repeat, it's the same fucking bill.
White House used Mitt Romney health-care law as blueprint for federal law
Three advisers to GOP candidate met a dozen times with senior Obama officials, records show
---
In addition to Obama himself, the meetings attended by Gruber were presided over by the president’s chief economic adviser, Lawrence Summers, then budget director Peter Orzag and Nancy-Ann DeParle, the president’s chief adviser on health care, the records show. Gruber was also given a $380,000 contract by the Obama administration in 2009 to work with Congress on drafting a new federal law based on the Massachusetts law, records show.
The response echoed comments that Romney made last April after Obama suggested the White House had borrowed from his law in Massachusetts.
“He does me the great favor of saying that I was the inspiration of his plan,” Romney said of Obama. “If that’s the case, why didn’t you call me? …Why didn’t you ask what was wrong? Why didn’t you ask if this was an experiment, what worked and what didn’t. … I would have told him, ‘What you’re doing, Mr. President, is going to bankrupt us.’”
Romney is “the father of health-care reform,” said Gruber.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/44854320/...-care-law-blueprint-federal-law/#.UkbRY9L9PJo
Could it be that he doesn't want you to know that neither Romneycare nor Obamacare does anything about medical bankruptcies or to control costs?
Big ‘Romneycare’ secret: It didn’t rein in costs
And although Democrats wouldn’t miss an opportunity to tar Romney’s tenure as governor, trashing the health law would do damage to Obama’s closely related effort. But some who are closely watching Massachusetts are more candid about it — and they say it has some serious problems.
“The reality is it performed very poorly,” said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former Congressional Budget Office director and president of the American Action Forum. He’s one of the most vocal critics of the plan. “A huge mark against it is it didn’t control health care costs at all.”
Health care costs per capita were 27 percent higher in Massachusetts than in the rest of the country in 2004, two years before the state plan was signed, Holtz-Eakin says. By 2009, it was 30 percent higher than the national average.
The law’s failure to rein in health care costs is widely acknowledged by nonpartisan analysts, as well as conservative critics. But there’s more material for critics to work with if either party wanted to use it. For example, emergency room use has gone up, not down — undermining the law’s effort to get that problem under control by expanding coverage
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81837.html#ixzz2gBzJjwig
RomneyCare Didn’t End Medical Bankruptcies
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2011/07/11/romneycare-didnt-end-medical-bankruptcies/
Why is it even called Obamacare when in fact it is expanded Romneycare?
