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Mitt: No apology for HIS individual health care mandate

by Jed Lewison Tue Feb 01, 2011

While all this focus on the constitutionality of the individual health care mandate might be an annoying political distraction for the White House, for Mitt Romney it's an absolute f^$#!ng disaster because now, every time the subject of health care reform comes up, the first thing Mitt has to do is explain why it was okay for him to sign the individual health care mandate into law, but it was really horrible for Barack Obama to do the same thing. Case in point:

Mitt Romney: No Apology for Individual Health Care Mandate

On the kick off to his "No Apology" book tour Mitt Romney is on message – refusing to apologize for the Massachusetts health care law that, like President Obama’s federal legislation, requires citizens to buy health insurance.

“I’m not apologizing for it, I’m indicating that we went in one direction and there are other possible directions. I’d like to see states pursue their own ideas, see which ideas work best,” Romney told me.

That stand seems to reject the advice of Karl Rove and others who say that Romney can’t get the GOP nomination in 2012 unless he finds a way to distance himself from "Romneycare", but Romney did concede that his Massachusetts plan is imperfect.

So, basically, Mitt's answer now boils down to this: my individual health care mandate was okay because I was a governor. Barack Obama's wasn't okay because he was president. In other words, it's a state's rights issue.

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