Romney: Sick People May Live, If They Move to Massachusetts

You know the woman in the Priorities USA ad, the one who Mitt Romney sorta-kinda-indirectly-eventually killed? Her husband was laid off by a Bain-controlled firm in 2001, when Romney was technically in charge of the firm but not making day-to-day decisions. She still had health care through her job, but then she lost it, and — with both spouses having lost their insurance — got sick and died. Intel Dan calls the ad a lie. I’d call it an extremely tenuous chain of causality.
Romney spokesperson Andrea Saul offered up a different rebuttal. She would have had health insurance, if she had lived in Massachusetts:

“To that point, if people had been in Massachusetts, under Governor Romney’s health care plan, they would have had health care,” Andrea Saul,
Romney’s campaign press secretary, said during an appearance on Fox News. “There are a lot of people losing their jobs and losing their health care in President [Barack] Obama’s economy.”

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