Mitt Romney doesn’t love us anymore
April 27th, 2007 by 
David E. Williams of the Health business blog
..if he ever did.
From A Healthy Blog:
Romney is distancing himself from the MA health reform law that he earlier championed as a once in a generation achievement.
Of course, this makes sense. Turns out the MA law — including the individual mandate — is far more popular with Democrats and Independents than with Republicans. It’s turning out to be a harder sell in conservative circles than Romney imagined — individual responsibility is not a big enough calling card to surpass the other parts that make Republicans cringe.
Blogger John McDonough expects Romney to start taking credit for the law again if (a big if) he gets the nomination.
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April 27th, 2007 at 5:30 pm
[...] “At the state level, you can’t do health reform by beating up the other side,” says Marty Sellers, who helped Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney design a near-universal health care program when Romney was governor of MA. “Republicans support the subsidized purchase of private health insurance.” [...]