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Obama campaign slams ‘RomneyCare’ on its sixth birthday

The Obama campaign released a video Thursday for the sixth anniversary of Mitt Romneys health care law, blasting the presumed Republican nominee for his attack against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act even though the president used Romney's health reform plan as a model.

By Kathryn Mayer | Updated on April 12, 2012
The Obama campaign released a video Thursday for the sixth anniversary of Mitt Romney’s health care law, blasting the presumed Republican nominee for his attack against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act even though the president used Romney’s health reform plan as a model for his own.

“Now that Romney is running for president, apparently he doesn’t believe in taking on rising health care costs or providing affordable accessible health care to all Americans,” the campaign wrote in a news release. “He advocates letting insurance companies go back to dropping Americans’ coverage when they get sick, discriminating against those with preexisting conditions, and making women pay more for their health care.”

The three-minute video features interviews with John McDonough and Jonathan Gruber, the architect and lead consultant respectively on Romney’s 2006 plan. After helping Romney with his plan, both went on to help craft the PPACA, a law that’s divided the country.

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