RMoney Health Care Plan Nearly Doubles Family Insurance Cost

Romney Health Care Plan Nearly Doubles Family Insurance Costs: Study

With the news this week that there’s been net job growth during President Obama’s term, Mitt Romney lost one of his favorite critiques of the presidential incumbent. Not to worry though, there’s always Obamacare to criticize, right?

Maybe not so much. Under Romney’s proposed health care plan, American families buying non-group health insurance would pay nearly double what they pay under Obamacare, according to a new study by Families USA entitled "ObamaCare versus RomneyCare versus RomneyCandidateCare." That includes both comparative insurance premium payments as well as out-of-pocket expenses.

The study finds that while RomneyCare in Massachusetts bears many similarities to Obamacare, neither are very similar to what Romney’s health care plan would look like if he were elected. Among measures identified in the study, RomneyCandidateCare would repeal Obamacare, turn Medicaid into a block grant and add an income tax deduction for purchasing health coverage. As a result, the study reports, not only would American families pay more for coverage, many fewer Americans would have health insurance at all. By 2016, 41.9 million more people would be uninsured under Romney than with Obamacare.

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Oh, and the RMoney plan for the uninsured?...."Go to the Emergency Room."

..and "let the bastards freeze in the dark", and: "[M]y job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."

"Compassionate (vulture-capitalist) Conservatism" strikes again

You really want it both way. some days you say he won't be specific about what he is actually going to do and other days you can predict accurately the healthcare expense of most families.
Just this weekend, Romney wasn't saying what he wanted to keep of Obamacare so just more idle speculation from the left, wheras we got concrete results from Obama, lost jobs, tepid 1% growth, record long high unemployment of +8%. And spending trillions every six months.

FredHayek wrote: You really want it both way. some days you say he won't be specific about what he is actually going to do and other days you can predict accurately the healthcare expense of most families.
Just this weekend, Romney wasn't saying what he wanted to keep of Obamacare so just more idle speculation from the left, wheras we got concrete results from Obama, lost jobs, tepid 1% growth, record long high unemployment of +8%. And spending trillions every six months.

Wow...Isn't it amazing that the "concrete results from Obama" have nothing to do with health care. Having trouble staying with the topic?

You got that right Fred. These liberal morons speculate about what Romney would do then speculate what the costs would be on the speculated program.

OK. Back on topic, Obama has added millions in taxes on health care equipment with ACA which will get passed onto consumers, or poor consumers will be compensated by filling out more federal paperwork and the federal debt will rise even more.

Another opinion piece posted on Huff-n-Puff regurgitated in the hopes that misinformation will escape the the favorite echo chamber of the "progressive".

Anyone who tells you that they know what the future holds should be ignored, period. The same group of folks trying to get you to believe that Romney's plan for healthcare would double your costs and leave million uninsured are the same group of folks who tried to tell you that if the federal government borrowed a trillion dollars it didn't have that unemployment would stay below 8%, that you could keep your existing doctor and your existing health insurance if the PPACA was passed and that there wasn't a tax levied for failing to purchase health insurance. They've got a great record on being right so far, don't you think?

LJ,
Speculating about Romney's unwritten plan is useless. We don't even know what the effects of ACA will be and won't know for years.

FredHayek wrote: LJ, Speculating about Romney's unwritten plan is useless. We don't even know what the effects of ACA will be and won't know for years.

Gee, that means that speculating about "how bad it will be", and the lies about how much it will increase the debt, (when the GAO is saying that it will save Billions over the next 10 years) is just as useless...

Thanks. Another GOTP talking-point down the drain.

The longer it goes, the more the benefits kick in, the more people realize what it will do for them...(no more lifetime limits, coverage for pre-existing conditions..THE ABILITY TO CHANGE JOBS AND RELOCATE WITHOUT REGARD TO LOSING YOUR COVERAGE, wellness exams for men/women/seniors), the more you don't have a talking-point.

Actually the CBO isn't liking ACA nearly as they initally thought.

And I'll repeat:

Gee, that means that speculating about "how bad it will be", and the lies about how much it will increase the debt, (when the GAO is saying that it will save Billions over the next 10 years) is just as useless...

Thanks. Another GOTP talking-point down the drain.

The longer it goes, the more the benefits kick in, the more people realize what it will do for them...(no more lifetime limits, coverage for pre-existing conditions..THE ABILITY TO CHANGE JOBS AND RELOCATE WITHOUT REGARD TO LOSING YOUR COVERAGE, wellness exams for men/women/seniors), the more you don't have a talking-point.