claim: a study says massachusetts has lost 18,000 jobs because residents were required to obtain health insurance under an act signed into law by mitt romney.
author: rick perry
evidence_1: jan 19, 2012 ... a study says massachusetts has lost 18,000 jobs because residents were  required to obtain health insurance under an act signed into law by mitt romney.  — rick perry ... says rick perry wrote a newspaper item saying he was "open to  amnesty" for illegal immigrants in the united states. — mitt romney ...
evidence_2: a study says massachusetts has lost 18,000 jobs because residents were  required to obtain health insurance under an act signed into law by mitt romney.
evidence_3: sep 27, 2011 ... rick perry said: “if romneycare cost massachusetts 18,000 jobs, just ... also has  referred to the study in criticizing romney, saying the law “killed ... fewer jobs in  2010 than it would have had [the state health care law] not been in place.” ...  businesses that are just under the coverage requirements of the law ...
evidence_4: jul 2, 2012 ... six years into its health-care reform experiment, massachusetts is neither in a ...  its law, the model for obama's affordable care act, hold for the nation? ... mitt  romney. ... its reform law, say those who have studied its effects upon residents,  ... health insurance had gone up because of romneycare,” he says.
evidence_5: sep 2, 2011 ... all residents with the financial means to obtain health insurance and all ... since  hcr was passed, premiums for single plans have increased ... in this report, the  beacon hill institute (bhi) uses its “computable general ... in april 2006,  massachusetts governor mitt romney signed into law “an act providing.