Romney’s ‘Gross’ Exaggeration on ‘Obamacare’

Romney’s ‘Gross’ Exaggeration on ‘Obamacare’
Posted on May 10, 2012

Mitt Romney falsely claims government will “constitute … almost 50
percent” of the U.S. economy when the new federal health care law
takes full effect. But Romney gets to 50 percent by erroneously
counting all health care spending — private and public — as
“effectively under government control once Obamacare is fully
implemented,” as his spokesman put it.

That’s nonsense — just as it was two years ago, when Rep. Michele
Bachmann made a similar bogus claim. The fact is that the nation’s
health care system will be no more under federal control than
Massachusetts’ fell under state control after Romney signed a similar
health care law as governor. Both Obama and Romney expanded the
private insurance market by mandating that individuals purchase health
care coverage.

http://factcheck.org/2012/05/romneys-gross-exaggeration-on-obamacare/
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