Gingrich: Romney Nixed Kosher Food Funding For Medicare Recipients

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gingrich-romneyNewt Gingrich this morning tossed the kitchen sink – no doubt properly cleaned and blessed – at Mitt Romney down in Florida. From Politico.com:

“He eliminated serving kosher food for elderly Jewish residents under Medicare,” Gingrich said. “I did not know this, it just came out yesterday. The more we dig in, I understand why George Soros in Europe yesterday said it makes no difference if it’s Romney or Obama, we can live with either one.

The source of Gingrich’s information was this Friday report in the New York Post:

Mitt Romney is getting heat for a 2003 veto he cast as governor of Massachusetts to reject $600,000 in additional funds for poor Jewish nursing-home residents to get kosher meals.

At the time, Romney said he nixed the funding of about $5 per day because it “unnecessarily” would lead to an “increased rate for nursing facilities” – even as kosher nursing homes were complaining that state-funding-formula changes could force them to close their kitchens.

“I was outraged,” Jeffrey Goldshine, the retired CEO of a company that operated a kosher facility in Massachusetts, told The Post yesterday….

Romney’s spokesman defended his opposition, saying the state was in crisis and the kosher funding veto was needed to head off higher reimbursement rates for Medicaid.

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3 COMMENTS

  1. So sure, throw your elderly constituents under the bus to save a buck! And on whom will you spend that saved money? I leave that to your imagination.

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