ISSUE: Health Care
- Audrey Kubetin
- Dec 7, 2011 at 2:00 pm
Will Romney Run From His ’07 RJC Speech?
On December 7, Mitt Romney will address the Republican Jewish Coalition’s Republican Presidential Candidates Forum in Washington, DC. When he spoke to the same group during his last run for the White House in 2007, Romney lauded his health care plan and insinuated it should be a model for national health care reform.
Will he say the same thing this year?
- Chris Harris
- Dec 6, 2011 at 4:49 pm
VIDEO: Will Romney Run From His ’07 RJC Speech?
On December 7, Mitt Romney is addressing the Republican Jewish Coalition’s Republican Presidential Candidates Forum in Washington, DC. When addressing the same group during his last run for the White House in 2007, Romney lauded his health care plan and insinuated it should be a model for national health care reform (as he has done on numerous occasions).
Will he say the same thing this year?
American Bridge just released a video showing last cycle’s speech with other examples of Romney asserting that he views Romneycare as a model for the nation — along with a clip of him denying ever saying so during an interview with Brett Baier.
Take a look:
- Derek Pearce
- Nov 10, 2011 at 5:37 pm
Journal Sentinel: Tommy Thompson pushes for focus on adult stem cells
On November 9, 2011, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported:
A decade after he helped persuade a president to allow funding of some embryonic stem cell research, Tommy Thompson, the former Wisconsin governor and presumptive U.S. Senate candidate, paid a visit to the Vatican on Wednesday to deliver a very different message.
In Rome, Thompson, who is Roman Catholic, portrayed himself as a strong proponent of adult stem cells – cells that aren’t culled from embryos – while appearing to brush aside the embryonic stem cell research he once defended.
- Audrey Kubetin
- Nov 3, 2011 at 5:52 pm
Romney Not Quite Sure How Birth Control Works
At a town hall in Iowa, Mitt Romney was pressed by an audience member about the implications of a personhood amendment, which would define a fertilized egg as a person. “Now, that would essentially mean banning most forms of birth control,” the young woman explained.
Romney replied that he doesn’t oppose the use of birth control because, in his words, “birth control prevents conception.” The young woman had to then explain to Romney that hormonal forms of birth control sometimes work by preventing implantation of a fertilized egg, rather than conception.
This footage was captured by an American Bridge tracker in Sioux City, IA, on October 20, 2011.
- Audrey Kubetin
- 5:33 pm
Renacci: Ryan Plan “Not a Voucher System”
In this clip, Jim Renacci gets into an argument with a constituent over Paul Ryan’s plan to replace Medicare with a health care voucher program. Renacci takes issue with the term “voucher.”
“I do want you to take a very good look at the Ryan Plan, it is not — it puts it into a free market system, it privatizes it, it gives subsidies, not vouchers. It subsidizes more for those that need more, it subsidizes less for those that need less.”
This footage was captured by an American Bridge tracker in Wooster, OH, on September 28, 2011.
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