WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following was issued today by the Democratic National Committee:
Smooth talking Mitt Romney keeps talking, but he still isn't saying what he would do to ensure every American has health care. Like the rest of the Republican presidential candidates, his current rhetoric focuses on using tax incentives to pay for private health insurance, an approach he once said could not work. But, as the Los Angeles Times reported yesterday, countless Americans with pre-existing medical conditions "could not be sure of getting coverage -- especially if they were not already covered by a government or job-related plan and had to seek insurance as individuals." [Los Angeles Times, 11/20/07]
Instead of explaining what he would do to address those concerns, Romney has been busy trying to win over conservative activists by distancing himself from the health care plan he championed as Massachusetts governor. He called the plan "a conservative victory" as recently as 2006, but now denounces similar proposals as "socialized medicine." [Boston Globe, 4/26/07; Reuters, 10/5/07]
Lacking a health care agenda of his own, Romney has adopted President Bush's. Not only does Romney support the President's decision to deny health care to 10 million children by vetoing Democratic efforts to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)--even though Romney himself expanded SCHIP funding as governor--he has also recycled President Bush's failed plan for health savings accounts. [Kansas City Star, 10/2/07; Washington Post "The Trail," 8/24/07]
"Whether he is running from his own plan, flip-flopping on whether tax
exemptions can expand health care or supporting President Bush's veto of an
SCHIP expansion after expanding SCHIP in Massachusetts, smooth talking Mitt
Romney's health care confusion is sending the American people a clear
message," said Democratic National Committee spokesman Damie
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