recovery. mr. romney says this book proves that president obama passed health reform even though he knew it would hurt the economy. so president obama deliberately hurt the economy in order to pass health reform, which is going to be bad for the economy. mr. romney said two weeks ago that that s what this book reports. wagging this book, citing by name. nome scheider responded at the new republic, where he works, saying, that s not at all what s in my book, that s not what my book says, and i never said that. and despite that, as of last night, mitt romney is making the same claim again. i saw something that i thought was pretty disturbing. a book that was written in a way that s apparently pro-president obama was written by a guy named noam sclooish, and in this book, he said there was a discussion that the fact that obama care would slow down the economic recovery in this country. and they knew that before they
things, like pass another round of stimulus, as you say. and in fairness, i think, i certainly came to the conclusion that that was a possibility. that it did prevent their efforts or at least complicate their efforts to go back and get more stimulus. and i think certain obama economic advisers at the time raised this concern. but, again, there was never any discussion of this idea that the act itself would somehow damage the economy. and there was never anything for that matter said with certainty or even high probability that by doing this, you are sort of dealing us a slow recovery. this was the standard conversation that goes on within any administration about the trade-offs between different policy initiatives. and obviously, the president felt that the possibility, the chance of doing health care was sufficiently important, that it was worth the trade-off. noam, since mitt romney has been talking about your book on the campaign trail, in at least these two instances, i don t
that it s going to crowd out your opportunities to do other things, like pass another round of stimulus, as you say. and in fairness, i think, i certainly came to the conclusion that that was a possibility. that it did prevent their efforts or at least complicate their efforts to go back and get more stimulus. and i think certain obama economic advisers at the time raised this concern. but, again, there was never any discussion of this idea that the act itself would somehow damage the economy. and there was never anything for that matter said with certainty oar even high probability that by doing this, you are sort of dealing us a slow recovery. this was the standard conversation that goes on within any administration about the trade-offs between different policy initiatives. and obviously, the president felt that the possibility, the chance of doing health care was sufficiently important, that it was worth the trade-off. noam, since mitt romney has been talking about your book on
recovery. mr. romney says this book proves that president obama passed health reform even though he knew it would hurt the economy. so president obama deliberately hurt the economy in order to pass health reform, which is going to be bad for the economy. mr. romney said two weeks ago that that s what this book reports. wagging this book, citing by name. nome scheider responded at the new republic, where he works, saying, that s not at all what s in my book, that s not what my book says, and i never said that. and despite that, as of last night, mitt romney is making the same claim again. i saw something that i thought was pretty disturbing. a book that was written in a way that s apparently pro-president obama was written by a guy named noam sclooish, and in this book, he said there was a discussion that the fact that obama care would slow down the economic recovery in this country. and they knew that before they
that it s going to crowd out your opportunities to do other things, like pass another round of stimulus, as you say. and in fairness, i think, i certainly came to the conclusion that that was a possibility. that it did prevent their efforts or at least complicate their efforts to go back and get more stimulus. and i think certain obama economic advisers at the time raised this concern. but, again, there was never any discussion of this idea that the act itself would somehow damage the economy. and there was never anything for that matter said with certainty oar even high probability that by doing this, you are sort of dealing us a slow recovery. this was the standard conversation that goes on within any administration about the trade-offs between different policy initiatives. and obviously, the president felt that the possibility, the chance of doing health care was sufficiently important, that it was worth the trade-off. noam, since mitt romney has been talking about your book on