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Santorum Campaign Press Release - Oh, How I Love Thee ... Let Me Count The Ways: 1, 2, 3 ... 15

March 06, 2012

Verona, PA - Mitt Romney both in his 2009 USA Today op-ed and in numerous interviews appealed to President Obama to look to Massachusetts as a model when crafting what we now know as ObamaCare. In the end, one of Romney's top healthcare advisers - John McDonough - even pitched in and helped Obama.

John McDonough (who the liberal group FamiliesUSA describes as "deeply involved in the design, passage, and implementation" of RomneyCare AND ObamaCare) recently released a study analyzing 15 key similarities between RomneyCare and ObamaCare, the list includes:(RomneyCare ObamaCare, Similarities Between Massachusetts Health Reform (aka: RomneyCare) and The Affordable Care Act (aka: ObamaCare) http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/RomneyCare-ObamaCare.pdf)

  • Mandates individual health coverage through tax penalties for those who do not comply
  • Requires employers (10 employees under RomneyCare, 50 under ObamaCare) to cover employees or pay a penalty
  • Creates board to regulate cost and quality control containment
  • Ties hospital payments to the quality of care they provide
  • Regulate where and how individual insurance is sold through insurance exchanges.
  • Regulate the kind of insurance policies that can be sold in the individual marketplace
  • Limits the factors insurers can use to vary premiums
  • Regulates which benefits must be offered in different insurance policies.
  • Creates a marketplace for small employers to shop for coverage for their workers
  • Requires employers to cover young adults who stay on their parents' health plan until they are 26 years old
  • Expands Medicaid coverage
  • Tax subsidies for health coverage for individuals who are over three times the federal poverty rate
  • Wellness and prevention healthcare investments
  • Eliminates annual caps on individual coverage
  • Creates new government bureaucracies to work toward eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities

Rick Santorum, Santorum Campaign Press Release - Oh, How I Love Thee ... Let Me Count The Ways: 1, 2, 3 ... 15 Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/300599

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