Romney Debates Romney About Health-Care Reform: Michael Kinsley
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Jan. 13 (Bloomberg) -- OK, let’s go through this one moretime. In 2006, Mitt Romney, as governor of Massachusetts, guidedto passage, signed with a flourish and implemented with fanfarea health-care reform law for his state.
It was intended to achieve universal health coverage -- along-standing liberal goal that was not even on the Democrats’national agenda, let alone the Republicans’, at the time. Of theavailable models, Romney chose one developed in part by theconservative Heritage Foundation. Its central provision was an“individual mandate,” requiring everyone to carry healthinsurance (and subsidizing those who couldn’t afford it).