WH says Obamacare is just like Mass. health plan; Mass. Former Dem Treasurer says it will "wipe out the American economy" Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexamineWhite House Says Obamacare Is Just Like Mass Health Plan Mass D

This weekend, David Axelrod, the president's top political advisor went on television and defended Democrats health care reform efforts by favorably comparing it to the state health care plan in Massachusetts:

"Senator [Scott] Brown [R-Mass.] comes from a state that has a healthcare plan that's similar to the one we're trying to enact here," Axelrod said on ABC's "This Week". "We're just trying to give the rest of America the same opportunities that the people of Massachusetts have."

By "the same opportunities that the people of Massachusetts have" I hope Axelrod isn't referring to premiums growing 21 to 46 percent faster than the national average or per capita health spending increasing faster than the national average in seven of the last eight years.

And what's the (formerly) Democratic state treasurer of Massachusetts have to say about all of this? Oh:

The Massachusetts treasurer said Tuesday that Congress will "threaten to wipe out the American economy within four years" if it adopts a health care overhaul modeled after the Bay State's.




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