Jan 27, 2012 ... Oooh, Santorum said “top-down medicine.” I was the only one in the #CNNdebate press room who chuckled. #Embarrassing. — Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) January 27, 2012. Santorum calls Romneycare a “top-down government run health care system.” #untrue. — AdamSerwer (@AdamSerwer) ...
Jan 20, 2012 ... Thanks to the Massachusetts Healthcare Reform Act signed by Mitt Romney in 2006, MA leads the nation in affordable healthcare coverage. ... 2005, the Federal government said that it would not give Massachusetts $350 million in Medicaid funding unless it reformed its expensive healthcare system.
Lessons from the Fall of RomneyCare ... He told other reporters that the biggest difference between his health care plan and Hillary Clinton's was "mine got passed and hers didn't." ... The Massachusetts plan was supposed to accomplish two things — achieve universal health insurance coverage while controlling costs.
May 28, 2014 ... Conservatives have recognized for a very long time that the American health care system—despite some considerable strengths—also has been greatly in ... regulation and government interference, good intentions too often have led to bad consequences: higher than necessary costs, less access to care, ...
Mar 25, 2011 ... In 2004 Romney's then-secretary of HHS, Ron Preston, wrote a “white paper” on ways to get to universal coverage. Beyond money and politics, Massachusetts had advantages and disadvantages in its existing health care system. The state had a lower percentage of uninsured and higher percentage of ...
Romneycare … is a top-down, government-run health care system.