Mitt Romney Backflips On Romneycare

Mitt Romney used to boast that his Massachusetts health care law should serve as a model for national health reform. After President Obama took that advice, and opposing the Affordable Care Act became an essential criterion for membership in the Republican Party, Romney executed a hairpin turn and began describing his reforms as uniquely suited to Massachusetts — not the whole country — if even that.

At the first presidential debate Wednesday night, he came full circle.

“What we did in Massachusetts is a model for the nation, state by state,” he said.

Romney’s belief that states should adopt their own versions of Romneycare contradicts the view he held last December while fighting for the Republican presidential nomination.

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