Maryland Governor O'Malley schools Scott Walker on healthcare [View all]

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http://democurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2012/07/gov-omalley-rips-into-walker-over.html

Scott Walker claimed the state found out that people will end up paying more for their insurance under the Affordable Care Act. The research that makes this claim is no where to be found. It would be interesting to see how shopping competitively for insurance in the exchanges would raise premiums, unless a poll they solicited is that "research."

The state's Office of Free Market Health Care is seeking input from consumers and other stakeholders that would be used in designing an online marketplace for individuals and small employers to buy health insurance.

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Walker said he "learned" from Romney's example in Massachusetts: "In the case of Wisconsin, we learned looking at that state, Massachusetts is a good example, we learned from what we found from our actuarial assessment that we did this past year that it was not a good measure for the state of Wisconsin," Walker said.

Romney Care actually brought down the cost, covered more people and has high approval ratings, which is just the opposite of what Walker is saying here.