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Profits Over People, Medicare Edition


By ThinkProgress War Room

Romney’s Plan to Pad Insurance Company Profits

Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan’s plan to end Medicare as we know it and turn it into a voucher plan is bad enough on its face. It doesn’t do anything to actually rein in health care costs. It just shifts costs — potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars for future retirees — from the government onto the backs of seniors.

But it gets worse. We learned over the weekend that all the extra money out of our pockets is going to give insurance companies some extra large profits. Here’s President Obama, who was in Florida yesterday, describing the findings of a new study:

In fact, one report just said that by the end of the next decade, our opponent’s plan would mean as much as $16 billion to $26 billion in new profits for insurance companies.  So basically, your costs would rise by the thousands so that their profits could rise by the billions.

How much more are you going to be on the hook for in order to pump up the profits on insurance companies? Check out this handy infographic to find out:

Evening Brief: Important Stories That You May Have Missed

In his defense, Mitt Romney cites five studies that actually just further prove his plan would raise taxes on the middle class.

In new stump speech, Romney suggests Obama is anti-God.

One hedge fund millionaire is trying to buy a seat in Congress.

Paul Ryan once touted defense cuts he now claims to not have voted for.

Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) attacked Sandra Fluke.

Romney’s amazing and dishonest gymnastics on health care.

President Obama said Nikki Minaj’s “endorsement” of Mitt Romney was a joke — and she said the president was right.

Poll finds Obama surging after Democratic convention.

Obamacare has led to a record drop in uninsured young people.

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Republican Women for Obama

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Aug 24, 2012 by    

Learn more: http://OFA.BO/WbWDgC
Republican women share their history with the Republican Party and how the party’s views are no longer aligned with their own. They don’t support Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan and share how Romney and Ryan are wrong for women.
As they share:
“If you truly believe in a small government. That government shouldn’t be deciding what I can and cannot do with my own body.”
“There is no way on God‘s green earth that I would consider voting Republican.”
“I don’t even want to think about them having control—as a woman I don’t.”
“If you’re a conservative woman, and you believe in small government, then Barack Obama is your candidate because he’s keeping the government out of the decisions that should remain between you and God, and you and your own conscience.”

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a message from Stephanie Cutter

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Here’s just a snapshot of what Mitt Romney‘s platform calls for:

— Turn Medicare into a voucher program to buy private insurance,
forcing seniors to pay more out of pocket for their health care costs.

— Outlaw all abortions without exception for rape or incest
(including a “salute” to states like Virginia that have passed extreme
ultrasound laws).

— Ban marriage equality and reject civil unions of all kinds.

— Won’t protect the mortgage interest deduction for middle-class
families if Romney enacts his tax plan, even though it helps more than
30 million middle-class families.

— Kill investments in clean energy jobs and reject the wind
production tax credit, which would cost up to 37,000 American jobs.

“Intolerant” and “mean-spirited” sounds about right to me.

Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are in lockstep with this platform, but pay
close attention to what they’re saying up on that stage this week — I
guarantee you won’t hear a whole lot about any of that.

Instead, they’re filling their free airtime with false promises and
baseless attacks on President Obama. We can’t let them get away with it.

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FYI … American Progress


Ohio coal miners lost a day’s pay after they were forced to attend a Romney rally on a “mandatory and unpaid” basis. The mine is owned by a major Romney donor.

Mitt Romney wants consumers to waste an extra $1.7 TRILLION on gas.

The Romney campaign laughs off a reporter’s question about their false and discredited welfare attacks.

As Hurricane Isaac bears down on New Orleans, a Romney campaign co-chair complains that the media is “obsessed with mother nature.”

The fact-free Romney campaign.

The mayor of Los Angeles had some sharp words for the GOP on immigration.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) is crying wolf on the Obama administration’s response to Hurricane Isaac.

Florida’s GOP voter suppression law brought voter registration to a standstill.

Wisconsin’s lieutenant governor backtracked on her criticism of Todd Akin after being told that Paul Ryan also tried to redefine rape: “I think there is a way to have a more forcible rape.”

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You cannot make this stuff up –


Reporters talked to a few people waiting to get into the Mitt Romney fundraiser at the Koch estate in the Hamptons over the weekend.

Here’s what one of them had to say:

“A New York City donor a few cars back, who also would not give her name, said Romney needed to do a better job connecting. ‘I don’t think the common person is getting it,’ she said from the passenger seat of a Range Rover stamped with East Hampton beach permits. …

‘We’ve got the message,’ she added. ‘But my college kid, the baby sitters, the nails ladies — everybody who’s got the right to vote — they don’t understand what’s going on. I just think if you’re lower income — one, you’re not as educated, two, they don’t understand how it works, they don’t understand how the systems work, they don’t understand the impact.”‘

Whenever you hear about Romney’s fundraising advantage, I want you to remember this quote — because this is the kind of person making huge contributions to give him that advantage. If you do nothing, that’s who gets to win.

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This isn’t just about the kind of people supporting Mitt Romney. This is also about who benefits from a Romney presidency: Millionaires and billionaires would get a $250,000 tax cut, from a plan costing $5 trillion, while Wall Street would be allowed to write its own rules.

That’s Romney’s plan — a return to Bush-era policies. It’s hard to forget how that ended.

The outcome is in your hands:

– Messina

Jim Messina Campaign Manager Obama for America