During an at times confrontational second debate between President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney, health care and the landmark health care reform bill were, surprisingly, not a focus, and when the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act did come up, it was primarily used as an attack vehicle.
Romney used the health care law to attack Obama’s record. “This is a president who has not been able to do what he said he’d do,” Romney said during the October 16 debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. “… He said that by now middle-income families would have a reduction in their health insurance premiums by $2,500 a year. It’s gone up by 2,500 [dollars] a year. And if ‘Obamacare’ is passed — or implemented — it’s already been passed — If it’s implemented fully, it’ll be another 2,500 [dollars] on top.”
