Mitt Romney’s Latest Lie: Tells Audience Seniors Won’t Get To See Doctors

[Tx4obama]

Romney: Seniors 'Most Likely' Won't Get to See Doctor if Obama Wins

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney took his claim that President Barack Obama had stolen $716 billion from Medicare to the next level on Thursday and asserted that seniors "most likely" would not be able to see specialists if the president is re-elected.

Throughout the last few months of the 2012 presidential race, Romney's campaign has been insisting that Obama "robbed" $716 billion from Medicare to pay for the Affordable Care Act, a claim that PolitiFact rated as "mostly false."

The former Massachusetts governor's staff, however, has said that they are "not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers," and so it was not a surprise when Romney used the line again in Roanoke, Virginia on Thursday.

"I happen to believe that the choice you make [on Nov. 6] will have enormous consequence for a senior who's perhaps needing the care of a specialist," the Republican candidate explained. "If he or she makes a call to the doctor and if Obamacare is installed and the president's re-elected, why when making that call, you're mostly likely going to have the receptionist come back and say, 'Sorry, we're not taking in more Medicare patients.'"

After pausing for boos and moans from his supporters, Romney continued: "Because the president is cutting Medicare to pay for Obamacare."

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Full article w/video here: http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/romney-seniors-most-likely-wont-get-see-doct

I've never before seen anyone LIE so much every day.

[tanyev]

1. Probably everybody in that audience already believed it anyway.

[99th_Monkey]

2. Jinks - you owe me some coke.

I just posted the exact same thing 4-5 seconds after you,
Starting with "Rmoney's Latest Lie: ... And that was
before seeing this OP.

I'll self-delete, because I hate duplicate posts, as they just
take up space that could be better used on DU.

But here's the Raw Story article I was linking mine to, fyi
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/11/01/romney-seniors-most-likely-wont-get-to-see-doctor-if-obama-wins/

[Angry Dragon]

3. Willard then went on to say: 'Under Willard-Ryancare you will not have that problem,

because you will not be able to afford health care
So no reason to even call the doctor. We will save you time for more dying.'

[amborin]

4. are Floridian seniors stupid enough to buy into them:

"Florida remains a tossup, but a new survey points to one key reason Mitt Romney is polling well in a state where he was trailing not long ago: President Obama’s advantage on Medicare is essentially gone.

The president holds a 46-41 percent lead over Romney on who Americans trust to handle Medicare, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll released Wednesday, barely outside the survey’s 4 percent margin of error. That’s an 11-point swing from last month, when Obama was leading by 52 to 36 percent.

The finding was starker in a mid-October Florida poll, which had Romney up 7 points and found that the state’s seniors believed by a whopping 54-40 margin that Obama would do more long-term harm to Medicare.

Seniors comprise some 17 percent of Florida’s population, and voters rank Medicare as a top issue, making the Sunshine State a test case for how the debate is faring. Romney’s surge there has correlated with his dramatically improved Medicare numbers."

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/11/closing-the-medicare-gap-could-win-romney-florida.php?ref=fpnewsfeed