{"id":2736,"date":"2012-10-02T09:33:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T13:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2736"},"modified":"2012-10-02T09:33:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T13:33:25","slug":"report-mitt-romney-plan-leaves-72m-uninsured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/10\/report-mitt-romney-plan-leaves-72m-uninsured\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Mitt Romney plan leaves 72M uninsured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mitt Romney\u2019s health care plan wouldn\u2019t just insure fewer people than \u201cObamacare\u201d \u2014 it would make the uninsured problem worse than it would have been if the law had never passed, according to a comparison of the two plans released Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The analysis by the Commonwealth Fund, a New York-based health care research foundation, found that under Romney\u2019s health care plan, the uninsured population would soar to 72 million by 2022 \u2014 12 million higher than if nothing had been done at all.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, if President Barack Obama\u2019s health care law is fully implemented \u2014 including complete state participation in the now voluntary Medicaid expansion \u2014 the number of uninsured people would drop from 47.9 million in 2011 to about 27.1 million people in 2022, the report estimated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1012\/81900.html\" target=\"_blank\">Report: Mitt Romney plan leaves 72M uninsured &#8211; Brett Norman &#8211; POLITICO.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitt Romney\u2019s health care plan wouldn\u2019t just insure fewer people than \u201cObamacare\u201d \u2014 it would make the uninsured problem worse than it would have been if the law had never passed, according to a comparison of the two plans released Tuesday morning. The analysis by the Commonwealth Fund, a New York-based health care research foundation,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,22],"tags":[1552,672,301],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2737,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736\/revisions\/2737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}