2008 Romney: We will fight to get health care for all Americans

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Our friend Andrew at Buzzfeed dug up something that should make America facepalm:

But I thought RomneyCare wouldn’t work for the country, that it was just a state level experiment? Well I guess it was good enough for the country in 2008.

See why we don’t trust him?

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UPDATE: I did some quick digging and here’s Romney back in 2007 via CBS:

“I just want to underscore something — we can get everybody in this country insured,” Romney said. “My plan is designed to get everybody in this country insured. My estimate is that from the time you would put in place this program—pass the legislation necessary to put in place this program — within four years every American would be insured.”

One of Romney’s signature achievements as Massachusetts governor was to push through a health care reform bill that required everyone in the state to have health insurance or face fines. Romney says that while he is proud of the plan he enacted in his state, he wants to take a federalist approach to the issue that would get more Americans covered with private insurance, rather than reverting to an expanded government program.

How can everyone be be covered without an individual mandate, federalist approach or not?


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