Romney Holds Hillary Bashing Event In Front of Rudy's Hospital

Ex-MA Gov. Mitt Romney, in deciding to jump all over Sen. Hillary Clinton's health care plan this morning, picked an auspicious location: he stood in front of the emergency pavillion at St. Vincent's hospital in New York.

That's the "Rudolph W. Giuliani Trauma Center" at St. Vincent's, named for the mayor after 9/11.

Said Romney: "Hillary Care continues to be bad medicine. Hillary Clinton fundamentally believes in Washington. She doesn't believe in the American people." He continued in this same vein, using a series of "in her plan" versus "in our plan" riffs.

The subtext: Hillary Care is not Romney Care.

Speaking of Clinton's plan, Giuliani's communications director wrote this statement and e-mailed it to the press:

“If you liked Michael Moore’s ‘Sicko,’ you’re going to love HillaryCare 2.0. Senator Clinton’s latest health scheme includes more government mandates, expensive federal subsidies and more big bureaucracy – in short, a prescription for an increase in wait times, a decrease in patient care and tax hikes to pay for it all.”

Note the "government mandates" part. Giuliani advisers want to compare Romney's Massachusetts health reform bill -- which Giuliani has faulted for its expansion of bureaucracy and its mandates -- to Clinton's.

Whether Romney's Massachusetts bill -- which is not to be confused with the more free-market oriented approach he has taken in the presidential campaign -- is like Clinton's bill... well, that's a debate for health care policy wonks to have.

Romney aides don't buy the comparison, and in any event, seem very willing to debate health care with Giuliani. After all, Romney actually tried to solve the problem.

BTW: What's Fred Thompson's approach?

Comments

hey Flippity Floppity Mitty, you only know how to torture. This guy even tortured his own family dog! First go give your free market health care to your family dog who you strapped to the roof of your car on a 15 hour trip.

Here is what flipflopper Mitt stands for: Drug Company Lobbyists and Insurance Lobbyists. He does not care a sh*t about health of an average american.

Posted by Matt | September 17, 2007 2:17 PM

Freddie's health care policy: invent a medicine to make him less lazy, more alert, less fake and as young as his young trophy wife.

Posted by M | September 17, 2007 2:21 PM

How can anyone trust Ghuliani for health care issues since he was responsible for making WTC workers work in toxic environment and make them suffer some of the most severe health problems. And after doing this Ghuliani said, "I was at ground zero as often, if not more, than most of the workers. ... I was there working with them. I was exposed to exactly the same things they were exposed to. So in that sense, I'm one of them.".

Ghuliani is a liar! He was at WTC site mainly for photo-ops. He spent 29 hrs while a single worker spent median of 962 hours. Deatiled looks at 3 months period after 9/11 shows that Giuliani was at WTC site for a total of 29 hours in those three months, often for short periods or to visit locations adjacent to the rubble. In that same period, many rescue and recovery workers put in daily 12-hour shifts. The 29 hours Mr. Giuliani spent at ground zero involved 41 appearances, mostly to give tours to other officials and foreign dignitaries. Many entries include meetings away from the site before the tour. For instance, the schedule included 30 minutes on Nov. 15, 2001, for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, but Mr. Putin’s tour of ground zero was widely reported to have lasted 13 minutes.

Ghuliani spent many more hours (58 hours) at Yankees stadium than at WTC site.

Ghuliani - the guy who couldn't take care of WTC workers, how can he take care of American's health?

Posted by Ghuliani | September 17, 2007 2:35 PM

The more I see Romney the more I agree with my friends who thinks that Romney is the most politically dishonest and opportunist to the core. He looks like a used car salesman who will use all antics to sell you a lemon.

Posted by Tammy | September 17, 2007 2:40 PM

As per A Sullivan here is how phony Romney is:

Her mandates are an awful lot like his. Then there's this back in August:

I hope I get a chance to debate Hillary Clinton on the very topic because when I'm asked what the biggest difference is between my plan and her plan, I'll say that mine got passed.

Posted by tessa | September 17, 2007 3:03 PM