Mitt SLAMS ObamaCare© while STAUNCHLY defending his own version of...er, "ObamaCare©"...

Romney blasts federal 'takeover' of health care, defends Mass. plan



In a much-publicized address on his proposals to fix the nation’s health care system, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney again defended the health insurance plan he signed into state law in 2006, calling it a “more modest proposal” than the federal overhaul of insurance backed by President Barack Obama and reviled by Republicans.

Noting that many pundits have suggested he would benefit politically from a complete disavowal of the Massachusetts plan, the 2012 presidential hopeful said “it wouldn’t be honest” to reject his state’s health care overhaul as a mistake. “I, in fact, did what I think was right for the people of my state,” he said.

“Overall, am I proud of the fact that we did our best for our people and we got people insured?” he said. “Absolutely.”

Romney strove to draw contrasts between the Massachusetts plan he backed and the one Obama shepherded to passage. “We didn’t create a government insurance program, or a government policy that people got,” he said of the Bay State law. (See here for an earlier post fact-checking some Romney's assertions about his plan.)

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