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June 14, 2011

Healthcare reform attacked in GOP debate

It's no secret most Republicans are no fans of President Obama's healthcare reform law.

So it came to no surprise that it was heavily criticized during Monday night's GOP debate.

But the presidential hopefuls were fairly muted in their criticism of GOP front runner Mitt Romney, who was governor of Massachusetts when healthcare reform passed there.

They treaded lightly around the subject choosing to attack the president rather than each other. Even Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, who this weekend called Romney's healthcare plan "Obamneycare," wouldn't broach the issue.

Romney has defended his plan, in part saying it didn't raise taxes so was different from the federal plan.

What did you all think of the Republicans playing nice with each other? Should this debate have been about the who would be the best GOP candidate and not Obama policies?

What about Romney healthcare plan? Is it really any different than the federal plan?

Give us your thoughts.

Posted by Andrea Walker at 11:43 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Categories: Health care reform

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About Picture of Health

Meredith Cohn has been a reporter since 1991, covering everything from politics and airlines to the environment and medicine. A runner since junior high and a particular eater for almost as long, she tries to keep up on health and fitness trends. Her aim is to bring you the latest news and information from the local and national medical and wellness communities.

Andrea K. Walker knows it’s weird to some people, but she has a fascination with fitness, diseases, medicine and other health-related topics. She subscribes to a variety of health and fitness magazines and becomes easily engrossed in the latest research in health and science. An exercise fanatic, she’s probably tried just about every fitness activity there is. Her favorites are running, yoga and kickboxing. So it is probably fitting that she has been assigned to cover the business of healthcare and to become a regular contributor to this blog. Andrea has been at The Sun for nearly 10 years, covering manufacturing, retail , airlines and small and minority business. She looks forward to telling readers about the latest health news.

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