Obama campaign salutes anniversary of Romney's health care law

[babylonsister]

Obama campaign salutes anniversary of Romney's health care law
Posted by
CNN Chief White House Correspondent Jessica Yellin and CNN Political Editor Paul Steinhauser


(CNN) - Maybe you've heard the president's top aides call Mitt Romney the "godfather" of the Obama health care law?

Now the Obama campaign is out with a web video that drives home the message.

"I helped Gov. Romney develop his health care reform or Romneycare, before going down to Washington to help President Obama develop his national version of that law," says Jonathan Gruber a bright eyed MIT Health Consultant featured prominently in the video. The spot includes old footage of Romney thanking Gruber for his work on the Massachusetts health bill.

Gruber's verdict: "The core of the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare and what we did in Massachusetts are identical."

Get the point?

John McDonough, also identified as an architect of both health care plans, questions Romney's opposition to the president's Affordable Care Act.

"People have him recorded as promoting Massachusetts health reform, promoting it as a national model. And now he is saying he wants to tear down the very model he was promoting," he says.

Gruber puts it succinctly: "all of a sudden Mitt Romney started attacking basically what he had done."

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[Jackpine Radical]

1. They've been making some nice campaign moves lately.

Like the Reagan Rule.


Nice for the campaign, even if it does tend to remind liberals of just how far right both the Republicans and Obama are these days, when a Democratic President is pushing Cato (healthcare) and Reagan (taxation) policies against Republican opposition.

[joshcryer]

5. Jonathan Gruber is no right winger though.

He's an academic who wanted to get stuff fixed.

[bvar22]

2. !

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[Pisces]

3. This is pitch perfect.

[joshcryer]

4. Romney will point out that he vetoed all of the progressive aspects of Romneycare.

He was overridden.

[Myrina]

6. That is funny, but ...

... it also proves that our President is in no way, shape or form a progressive/liberal, and is apparently now not even pretending to be.

"Oh, look, I did this, don't like it? Well it's just like what Mitt did!"

Great. Groan.

[babylonsister]

7. And he didn't have a snowball's chance in hell of

getting those liberal/progressive ideals passed. He got done what he could, which is a helluva lot better than anyone has even tried in recent memory. Except maybe Mitt...

[joshcryer]

9. Things like "no exemptions" and "children covered" are very progressive. Romney vetoed them in Mass.

He was overridden and I know that he will come out and make sure everyone knows he vetoed everything except "buy health insurance."

[joshcryer]

8. Romney vetoed all the progressive aspects of Romneycare.

He can't own them (not that he'd want to) and you can't attribute them to him. He was overridden by the state Democrats.

Don't believe me?

Go here: http://www.malegislature.gov/Laws/SessionLaws/Acts/2006/Chapter58

Type "The Legislature overrode the Governor's veto" in "find" (Control+F on most web browsers), or just "overrode."