Statements about Health Care
"The Obama administration ... would impose on every Catholic institution, every Jewish institution, every Protestant institution the Obamacare standard of what you have to buy as insurance."
"Romneycare … is a top-down, government-run health care system."
"Speaker Gingrich for 20 years supported a federal individual mandate" for health insurance.
Eliminating "Obamacare" ... "saves $95 billion a year."
Says Mitt Romney, as governor of Massachusetts, "put into place socialized medicine."
Says the paperback edition of Mitt Romney's book deleted line that Massachusetts' individual mandate "should be the model for the country"
In 1993, Newt Gingrich "first advocated for the individual mandate in health care. And as recently as May of this year, he was still advocating" for it.
Says Mitt Romney once supported President Obama’s health care plan but now opposes it.
Repealing the health care law "would save $95 billion in 2016."
"Thirty million Americans, including a lot of people in Florida, are going to be able to get healthcare next year because of that law."
"Because of Barack Obama 32 million new people will have healthcare."
Medicare monthly premiums will go up to $104.20 in 2012 and $247.00 in 2014 due to "provisions incorporated in the Obamacare legislation, purposely delayed so as not to 'confuse' the 2012 re-election campaigns."
"Obamacare is so flat-out unpopular, that even the Obama administration chose to reject part of Obamacare last Friday, when they tried to throw out the CLASS Act, which is the long-term care function."
Says Romney wrote in the first edition of his book that his health care plan should be expanded nationwide and then, "You took it out of your book."
"The people in Massachusetts like (the state health care plan) by about a 3-1 margin."
The health care law was "a 2,733-page bill! . . . No amendments!"
When George W. Bush was governor of Texas, "the percentage uninsured went down." Under his successor, Rick Perry, "it's gone up."
"The IRS is already planning on 19,500 new employees to administer" Obama’s health care mandate.
Massachusetts has "less than 1 percent of our kids that are uninsured. You (Gov. Perry) have a million kids uninsured in Texas."
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