Team Romney has given a HUGE BOOST to Obamacare today, it's like they're stuck with the 'real' romney or they just don't think or something .. I mean he's promised to repeal Obamacare and today Romney team TOUTS OBAMACARE, while commenting on a political ad put out yesterday!__Andrea Saul's accidental admission
By Steve Benen Wed Aug 8, 2012 3:01 PM EDT
Priorities USA Action released a controversial new ad yesterday, featuring Joe Soptic, a former employee at GST Steel who lost his job and health benefits after Bain Capital closed the steel plant. Of particular interest, though, was the death of Soptic's wife.
In the ad, he explains that "a short time after" losing his health insurance, he wife became ill. She didn't acknowledge her symptoms for a while, but was eventually diagnosed with stage-four cancer. "There was nothing they could do for her," Soptic said, "and she passed away in 22 days."
The super PAC's ad has since drawn closer scrutiny, and there are legitimate questions about the timeline, but the Romney campaign today stepped all over its own response.
Wait, what?
Let me get this straight:
According to Romney's chief spokesperson, this struggling family in Kansas would have been far better off if only they'd lived in a state with an individual mandate and government subsidies?
The problem isn't that the argument is false. On the contrary, Saul is absolutely right and her boast is based entirely on fact. If the Soptic family in Kansas had been in Massachusetts under the Romney plan, Joe Soptic's wife almost certainly would have been diagnosed and treated much earlier.
Rather, the problem is, the Romney campaign isn't supposed to admit this out loud.
To put it mildly, the right isn't pleased. [ http://goo.gl/q6sQ1 ]Saul effectively made the argument that families that lose their jobs and health insurance are screwed unless (a) they live under Romneycare; or (b) they live under a fully-implemented Obamacare (i.e., Romneycare's progeny).
I have a hunch this isn't the message Team Romney hoped to convey to voters.
Related:
Team Romney Scares Conservatives By Touting ‘Romneycare’
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