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Mitt Romney's Achilles' Heel
http://spectator.org/archives/20…Romney has been unwilling to repudiate the health reform he signed into law in 2006, complete with the hugely unpopular individual mandate. The latest Associated Press-GfK poll shows only 15 percent of the American people think the government should have the power to require citizens to purchase health insurance or pay a fine.
That's what Obamacare will do -- barring a Supreme Court repudiation -- and that's what Romneycare already does.In a November interview on Fox News, Romney got testy when anchor Bret Baier asked him, "Do you think a mandate, mandating people to buy insurance, is the right tool?" Romney replied, impatiently, "What we did in Massachusetts was right for Massachusetts. I've said that time and time again.... This is not a federal plan, it's a state plan."
Romney is stubbornly defensive about his universal coverage law, poking a finger in the eye of Republican voters who rightly see it as the platform for President Obama's takeover of health care. John McDonough, who helped design both Romneycare and then Obamacare, said the federal law is "Massachusetts with three more zeros."