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Santorum: Romney and Obama both created ‘death panels’

By David Edwards
Monday, February 6, 2012 14:24 EST

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Monday asserted that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was “uniquely unqualified” for the GOP nomination because of the similarities between health care laws in Massachusetts and President Barack Obama’s health care reforms, including the repeatedly debunked claim that “death panels” would ration care to seniors.

Speaking at a ballroom across the street from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, Santorum pointed to a report (PDF) from the the non-partisan organization Families USA that found at least 15 major similarities between Obama’s Affordable Care Act and the reforms Romney enacted in Massachusetts.

“Both create government panels to dictate quality and cost containment,” Santorum explained. “Some of you may be familiar with the Independent Payment Advisory Board — which is a board separate from Congress, independent of Congress — that President Obama created to control health care costs. How? By cutting reimbursements to doctors and hospitals under the Medicare program. Well, Gov. Romney has a similar program called the Council on Health Quality and Costs.”

“Some people refer to these types of boards as death panels,” he added. “Why? Because they ultimately decide to ration care to those procedures and people because they don’t believe these procedures are effective in providing care, that the utilization isn’t worth the costs.”

“So, again, you have government making decisions and rationing and apportioning care based on research that shows what outcomes are dictated by the research that’s out there.”

In 2009, Politifact named “death panels,” a term thought to have been first used by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R), as their “Lie of the Year.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/06/santorum-romney-and-obama-both-created-death-panels/

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"Funny how he says "Some people refer to these types of boards as Death Panels" to the best of my recollection only His Party does!!!"By David Edwards Monday, February 6, 2012 14:24 EST Republican presidential... more

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$44 Million Hospital Bill Almost Kills Man

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Why Are They Closing St. Vincent's Hospital? (Pt. 29) - March Against the Health Insurance Industry (Excerpt)

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Why Are They Closing St. Vincent's Hospital? (Pt. 29) - March Against the Health Insurance Industry (Excerpt)

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Don't Take Our Word for It: GOP on Romney

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The Truth About Ron Paul

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Santorum to Mother of Cancer Survivor: People with Pre-Existing Conditions Should Pay Extra!!!

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Romney: I didn’t know what Medicaid was ‘before I got into government’

By David Edwards
Friday, December 16, 2011

Millionaire Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney admitted Friday that he wasn’t sure what Medicaid was before being elected as governor of Massachusetts at the age of 55.

“Medicaid, you wonder what Medicaid is, those that are not into all this government stuff,” Romney told voters at a campaign event in Sioux City, Iowa. “You know, I have to admit I didn’t know all the differences between these things before I got into government.”

“Then I got into it, and I understood that Medicaid is the health care program for the poor,” he explained.

The candidate said that as president, he would work to turn Medicaid over to the states in a block-grant program.

“We’re not going to have the federal government tell you how to care for your own people,” Romney declared. “Let states craft their own program, and then grow that program at inflation plus 1 percent. If we do that, by the way, we save about a hundred billion dollars a year.”

Romney’s plan is similar to one offered by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI). Responding to Ryan’s plan for Medicaid earlier this year, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) concluded that “[t]o maintain current service levels in the Medicaid program, states would probably need to consider additional changes, such as reducing their spending on other programs or raising additional revenues.”

“Alternatively, states could reduce the size of their Medicaid programs by cutting payment rates for doctors, hospitals or nursing homes; reducing the scope of benefits covered; or limiting eligibility,” the CBO said.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/16/romney-i-didnt-know-what-medicaid-was-before-i-got-into-government/

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"Hmmm, he just said that 'Money was taken by Congress and Spent!!!' Is he telling us what many have already guessed??? I think so, and maybe he thinks that telling the Truth is a better way of winning his parties candidacy??? I am thinking they are going to hand him his head!!! What do you folks think???"By David Edwards Friday, December 16, 2011 Millionaire Republican presidential... more

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Potential Merger of Two of the Nation's Largest Pharmacy Benefit Companies May Produce Conflict of Interest

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Occupy the phone lines!

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I want my Senator's healthcare,... if they voted to cut Medicare & Medicaid

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Congressional Reform Act of 2011

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Koch Drive-in Nite

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The View On The Streets: Should a price be put on life?

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