WH Consulted Romneycare Advisers To Shape Obamacare

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White House Consulted Romneycare Advisers To Shape Obamacare

By Igor Volsky on Oct 11, 2011 at 10:04 am

Mitt Romney responds to Democrats’ claims that President Obama modeled the Affordable Care Act on his 2006 Massachusetts health reform law, by asking why the president didn’t call him for advise. Today, Michael Isikoff reports that the administration did something much more useful — it consulted Romney’s closest advisers, holding “a dozen meetings in 2009 with three health-care advisers and experts who helped shape the health care reform law signed by Romney in 2006″:

The records, gleaned from White House visitor logs reviewed by NBC News, show that senior White House officials had a dozen meetings in 2009 with three health-care advisers and experts who helped shape the health care reform law signed by Romney in 2006, when the Republican presidential candidate was governor of Massachusetts. One of those meetings, on July 20, 2009, was in the Oval Office and presided over by President Barack Obama, the records show.

<..> And while the Affordable Care Act borrows substantially from the Massachusetts reform — it establishes the mandate and the exchanges, for instance — the federal law includes cost containment provisions that the Massachusetts measure lacks. Below is a comparison:

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2011/10/...obamacare/

Poor Mittens, he's got to admit he did it.

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Yeah, this really needs to be kept front and center..romney could very well be the candidate since he's obviously the better liar.

Here's something from David Axelrod today on romney that I don't really want to start a thread on..

Quote:The Obama campaign today painted Mitt Romney as a flip-flopper, whose economic plan would benefit the rich and amount to just a $50 tax cut for middle class -- despite Romney’s rhetoric at the debate last night.

“The logic of touting a $50 tax cut for the typical family,” especially since he is in favor of letting the payroll tax cut expire “is lost on me, but isn’t inconsistent” with Romney’s record of being on both sides of a host of issues, Obama senior adviser David Axelrod told reporters on what was the first Obama 2012 conference call singling out any particular candidate.

“You have to do more than recite the word middle class to convince people you are for them.”

It’s notable that the campaign went after Romney, a reflection perhaps of the former Massachusetts governor’s standing in the race for the GOP nomination.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/201...ou-make-it

It's "notable" to me that this reporter says the Obama campaign tried to paint mitt as a flipflopper when it's quite evident to anyone with a brain that he is. Also what's with the "Obama campaign"? It's the Obama Administration!

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Axelrod is campaign now, they have to keep it separated from the WH. But he's right, Mittens is a flip-flopper. So is the whole GOP herd running for prez.

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(10-12-2011 07:00 PM)jaxx Wrote:  Axelrod is campaign now, they have to keep it separated from the WH. But he's right, Mittens is a flip-flopper. So is the whole GOP herd running for prez.

Ah, thanks for explanation, jaxx.

Yeah, there's no doubt about that mitt doesn't need any painting from the Obama Campaign..he's doin' all by himself.

http://www.whichmitt.com/

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What a great site...whichmitt. They should do this for all the pubs. Thanks!!

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(10-12-2011 07:39 PM)jaxx Wrote:  What a great site...whichmitt. They should do this for all the pubs. Thanks!!

I had a thread about it 'cause I thought it was very on top of them to start cataloguing this crap from mitt..

http://democratsforprogress.com/forum/sh...?tid=10077

lol..the mitt graphic was distracting.

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Yep I saw the toon and missed the link.