Did Romneycare Lead To Obamacare? Romney Credits His Plan For Health Law
While running for president in 2008, Mitt Romney denied a connection between the health law he pushed while governor of Massachusetts to the one championed by President Barack Obama. But in an interview last week he said, "Without Romneycare, I don’t think we would have Obamacare." Romney has since walked back that apparent praise.
NPR:
Mitt Romney Finally Takes Credit For Obamacare
It's a good thing for him that Mitt Romney isn't running for president again. The 2012 GOP presidential nominee — who has still been bandied about as a potential candidate — just embraced everything that made many conservatives skeptical of him. He admitted that the health care plan he instituted as governor of Massachusetts was the precursor to Obamacare. (Taylor, 10/23)
CNN:
Romney Walks Back Apparent Compliment Of Obamacare
Mitt Romney stirred up a controversy Friday after he appeared to praise Obamacare, the law he pledged to repeal when he ran for president in 2012, before later walking back his comments. (Wallace, 10/23)
The Washington Post's Wonkblog:
Mitt Romney Takes Credit For Obamacare, A Law He Vowed To Repeal
Stemberg, he told the Globe, encouraged him to implement health reform when he served as governor, telling Romney that giving people access to health care would be a way of doing good. It was an idea, the Globe reported, "which Romney said he hadn’t really considered before." "Without Tom pushing it, I don’t think we would have had Romneycare,” Romney told the Globe. “Without Romneycare, I don’t think we would have Obamacare. So without Tom, a lot of people wouldn’t have health insurance.” That seems like a contradictory position from a former presidential candidate who wrote a fundraising pitch in 2010 that started, "President Obama's healthcare bill is unhealthy for America." (Johnson, 10/23)
