Medicare: Mitt Romney

• Leaves seniors in the lurch by giving them a Medicare “voucher” instead of guaranteed Medicare benefits.
• Privatizes Medicare—putting insurance companies back in charge.
• Increases out-of-pocket costs by more than $6,000 per year.
• Allows Medicare to go broke by 2016.
• Makes it harder for seniors to choose their own doctors.

Medicare: Barack Obama

• Preserves all guaranteed Medicare benefits.
• Expands benefits—including prevention and screenings.
• Lowers prescription drug costs for seniors in the "doughnut hole."
• Adds eight years to the life of Medicare by getting rid of taxpayer subsidies to insurance companies.
• Taking on waste, fraud and abuse in Medicare; has already recovered $10.7 billion.
• Has already saved 5.4 million seniors an average of $635 on their prescription drugs.

Medicaid: Mitt Romney

Would cut Medicaid by $810 billion and:

• Put the health of 1 in 5 seniors, people with disabilities and children at risk.
• Turn seniors out of nursing homes and cut home care.
• Cut 5 million jobs by 2016.
• Pass higher healthcare costs onto middle-class and states.

Medicaid: Barack Obama

• Expanded Medicaid to cover 16 million adults currently uninsured. (Governors in Georgia, New Jersey, Florida, Texas and Iowa have said they will not expand coverage.)

Affordable Care Act: Mitt Romney

Governor Romney would repeal the entire national healthcare law and:

• Allow insurance companies to deny care to people with pre-existing conditions and drop you if you get sick
• End regulations that prohibit lifetime caps on coverage.
• Force young adults up to age 26 off their parent's insurance plans.
• End prescription drug savings for seniors who fall into the Medicare “doughnut hole.”
• Take away the guarantee for no-cost preventive services such as well-woman care, childhood vaccinations, and flu shots.
• Increase the number of uninsured Americans to 72 million and increase costs across the board.

Bottom line: Governor Romney has no plan to replace the law and its benefits and protections.

Affordable Care Act: Barack Obama

Since President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law in March 2010, healthcare is now more affordable and secure for more than 100 million Americans.

• 86 million Americans have benefitted from free preventive services such as mammograms and wellness visits.
• 17 million children with pre-existing conditions can no longer be denied coverage.
• 6.6 million young adults have healthcare coverage until age 26 under their parent's plan.
• 70,000 Americans with pre-existing conditions now have the security of coverage.
• Women can no longer experience sex discrimination in the insurance market.
• 12.8 million Americans will benefit from cash rebates because their insurance company spent too much on administrative costs.

Birth Control: Mitt Romney

• Opposes a woman's right to choose. Previously supported pro-choice policies as Governor.
• Wants Roe v. Wade overturned by Supreme Court.
• Pledged to end funding to Planned Parenthood.
• Supports the Blunt amendment, which would allow corporations to deny contraceptive coverage for employees on the basis of the CEO's own moral objections.

Birth Control: Barack Obama

• Healthcare law requires contraceptives to be available with no co-pays for women -- regardless of where they work.
• Supports a woman's right to make her own reproductive choices.

Healthcare and Tax Breaks: Mitt Romney

Gives tax breaks to people who buy insurance on the individual market.

Note: It's unclear how Gov. Romney would pay for this expensive tax break because he has pledged not to spend federal dollars to do so.

Healthcare and Tax Breaks: Barack Obama

Provides nearly 30 million families with tax credits in 2014 to make healthcare more affordable.

Healthcare and Jobs: Mitt Romney

• Romney's 30 percent cut to Medicaid would cut 5 million jobs across the board by 2016.

Healthcare and Jobs: Barack Obama

• The healthcare industry will need an additional 5.6 million jobs by 2020 -- as long as there are no devastating cuts to healthcare.