It isn't true.
See:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201206060023
Will The Media Fact-Check Romney's Latest Whopper Accusing Obama Of Knowingly Slowing Down The Recovery?
June 06, 2012 7:40 pm ET by Jeremy Holden
Byron York, the chief political correspondent for The Washington Examiner, is amplifying Mitt Romney's discredited allegation that President Obama knowingly slowed down the economic recovery because he favored health care reform.
This Romney falsehood is based on a distortion of comments reported in the book The Escape Artists: How Obama's Team Fumbled the Recovery, by The New Republic's Noam Scheiber. The actual comments make clear that the White House has always rejected the dubious claim that it could not focus on economic recovery and health care reform at the same time.
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