"Romneycare’s 98% Success Rate Defies Gripes on Obama Law
“It’s funny,” Altman said. “I was talking to a guy in a bar who said he supported the Massachusetts law, and then he was very critical of the national law. I said, ‘what’s up with that?’ He didn’t want to go there, but I think it shows the situation Mitt Romney is in.
“What you have are people who are Republicans who are accepting the party line nationally, but locally find the law has worked out just fine for them,” he said.
About 98 percent of state residents are insured under the legislation Romney signed in 2006, a 10 percent rise from the previous three-year average. Government costs haven’t ballooned, officials say, and 63 percent of residents support the law. Yet Romney is promising to repeal the 2010 U.S. law Obama and his fellow Democrats fashioned on the Massachusetts program."
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-...-success-rate-defies-gripes-on-obama-law.html
“It’s funny,” Altman said. “I was talking to a guy in a bar who said he supported the Massachusetts law, and then he was very critical of the national law. I said, ‘what’s up with that?’ He didn’t want to go there, but I think it shows the situation Mitt Romney is in.
“What you have are people who are Republicans who are accepting the party line nationally, but locally find the law has worked out just fine for them,” he said.
About 98 percent of state residents are insured under the legislation Romney signed in 2006, a 10 percent rise from the previous three-year average. Government costs haven’t ballooned, officials say, and 63 percent of residents support the law. Yet Romney is promising to repeal the 2010 U.S. law Obama and his fellow Democrats fashioned on the Massachusetts program."
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-...-success-rate-defies-gripes-on-obama-law.html