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The Republican Ticket Twists the Facts About Health Care - NYTimes.com

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"The competing visions are often difficult to evaluate because the Republican candidates -- Mr. Romney and his running mate, Paul Ryan -- have become so artful about obfuscating their plans for what they will do to reform the whole system. Almost nothing the Republican candidates say on these or other health care issues can be taken at face value."
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"He continues to assert that his plan would cover people with pre-existing conditions when it clearly would not."
"A major goal of" The Health care"law was to cover some 30 million more people by expanding Medicaid and subsidizing coverage for middle-income people. That goal would be lost if the law was repealed."
"He says his plans would have no effect on people now on Medicare or nearing eligibility. But if he succeeded in repealing the reform law, most beneficiaries would see their premiums go up:

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