Saturday, July 7, 2012

Why Romney lies about Obamacare



So, why would a politician who crafted an identical healthcare law for his state lie about one modeled after the one crafted by The Heritage Foundation as the Conservative response to Universal Health Care?

 Here's what Wiley Willard doesn't want you to know about Obamacare and why he's desperately lying to hide the facts lest they tank his personal presidential ambitions:


  • Obamacare protects you from being denied insurance due to a pre-existing condition.
  • Obamacare protects you when your insurance company tries to deny you coverage.
  • Obamacare protects you from lifetime caps on your benefits.
  • Obamacare protects you from being dropped by your insurance carrier when you or your family gets sick.
  • Obamacare protects you from losing your health care should you lose your job
  • .Obamacare makes sure you'll never go bankrupt and lose your home because of medical bills

It doesn't get any more patient-centered than that! And this is what Romney and his Ship of Fools want to take away from you.

BONUS BENEFIT: Obamacare Is About To Put $1.3 BILLION Back In Consumers' Pocket

(h/t Jill W Klausen)

 So, who says Wiley Willard's lying?

Ask Jonathan Gruber, who worked on the Massachusetts health reform plan with Mitt.


Aw hell, let's just ask the man himself:
Our experience also demonstrates that getting every citizen insured doesn't have to break the bank. First, we established incentives for those who were uninsured to buy insurance. Using tax penalties, as we did, or tax credits, as others have proposed, encourages "free riders" to take responsibility for themselves rather than pass their medical costs on to others. This doesn't cost the government a single dollar. Second, we helped pay for our new program by ending an old one — something government should do more often. The federal government sends an estimated $42 billion to hospitals that care for the poor: Use those funds instead to help the poor buy private insurance, as we did. 

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