Lawrence O’Donnell, MSNBC host: “Alright, come on. Come clean. You were in the room with President Obama discussing healthcare reform and you did in fact work with the Romney administration in Massachusetts. Come on Professor, you’ve got to tell us the truth.”
Jonathan Gruber, MIT professor: “The truth is that the Affordable Care Act is essentially based on what we accomplished in Massachusetts. It’s the same basic structure applied nationally. John McDonough, one of the other advisers,who work in both Massachusetts and advised the White House said ‘it’s the Massachusetts with three more zeros.’ And that’s basically a good description of what the federal bill did.”
Gruber says Massachusetts received some federal funding for Romney’s healthcare reform, meaning all U.S. taxpayers chipped in to fund RomneyCare.
As I said, you are just citing MSNBC talking points and a liberal MIT professor. Romney HIMSELF pointed out the huge differences between his law and Obamacare, and the length of the respective laws proves that they are vastly different. And this is not to say that I support Romneycare - I’ve read that it too has all sorts of issues and problems, financial and otherwise. My only point is that it is vastly different from Obamacare.