In an op-ed in USA Today, Florida Gov. Rick Scott wrote that Obamacare “was invented by liberal academic theorists.”
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Scott said Obamacare “was invented by liberal academic theorists.”
Scott cherry-picked three advisers supportive of the law with ties to Obama. But he exaggerates by ignoring that many people over several decades from both parties developed the ideas for what would eventually become Obamacare. Most notably, Scott omits Republican Gov. Romney, who enacted a Massachusetts plan four years before the federal law passed, and the conservative Heritage Foundation, which was a strong advocate for the health care exchanges upon which both plans were based.
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