Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney hurled some of the harshest words of anyone at the health care plan that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton announced yesterday, even though as Massachusetts governor in 2006 he created a strikingly similar system.
Shortly after Clinton unveiled her proposals, including a requirement that all Americans purchase health insurance, Romney blasted her approach, calling it “European-style socialized medicine.” Weird stuff, considering that Romney’s reforms in Massachusetts included the individual mandate and other key elements that he dislikes in Clinton’s agenda.
Both shared the same guiding principle — to build on the existing employer-based private healthcare system instead of replacing it with a government-run system. If anything, Romney should be accusing Clinton of stealing his plan. Instead, he is so obsessed with appealing to conservatives and Clinton haters in his party primaries that he has abandoned what could have been a popular item for his resume as a party nominee trying to appeal to swing voters in a general election.![[RSS]](http://67.192.49.194/templates/images/rss_icon.gif){kind=icon}
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