Washington, 23 mar (EFE).-the Raul presidential Republicans engaged today, on the eve of the primaries in Louisiana, attacking health care reform of the President of the United States.UU., Barack Obama, coinciding with the second anniversary of its promulgation.
“the President is not giving speeches” on reform in this anniversary “and that is for a reason: the majority of Americans want to get rid of it and we are among them”, said Mitt Romney, former Governor of Massachusetts, during a campaign in the area of New Orleans, Louisiana.
El exsenador Rick Santorum also criticized the law of Obama in a statement issued by his campaign and took passage to go against Romney, who stated that “he deceived voters” with a Massachusetts health reform, when he was Governor, very similar to that now rejects.
Another of applicants, the former President of the House of representatives Newt Gingrich, said in a statement that if the reform of Obama remains “no end to the power of the Government”, that in his view now has control “over very personal decisions about life and death”.
Obama not made any special activity today to commemorate the second anniversary of the enactment of the reform, on the eve that the Supreme Court consider appeals by unconstitutionality against States ruled by Republicans.
The White House Yes issued a statement in which the President says that his reform, the largest system of health in half a century, “has made a difference for millions of Americans and over time will help to give more working families and middle class security that deserve”.
Bring forward the reform has been the greatest achievement of the mandate of Obama and seeks to extend health insurance coverage to the entire population. Currently, there are nearly 50 million people who have no such protection.
Compulsory purchase health insurance will enter into force in 2014 and the law provides that individuals who do not purchase will be fined.
This clause of compulsory health insurance is the most controversial and which reject altogether the Republican candidates, who have repeatedly pledged during the campaign to cease reform if they reach the White House.
The next elections for these candidates is this Saturday in Louisiana, which held primaries and will deliver 46 delegates.
According to the latest estimates of the CNN, Romney chain has until now 562 delegates, followed by Santorum (249), Gingrich (137) and the Texas lawmaker Ron Paul libertarian ideas (71).
1.144 Delegates are needed to secure the Republican presidential nomination in the Convention that Party held in August in Tampa, Florida.
