After 3 years of the Republican Party slamming President Obama's health care plan, calling him everything from a socialist, communist and everything in between, it seems like Mitt Romney is trying to reverse the course. On Sean Hannity's radio show, Mitt Romney claimed that the individual mandate for health care was actually a conservative idea, a far cry from what we have heard from the radial right.
Romney- “The idea for a health care plan was not mine alone, The Heritage Foundation — a great conservative think tank — helped on that. I’m told Newt Gingrich, one of the very first people who came up with the idea of an individual mandate, did that years and years ago”
That comment is something that is a shocker coming out of the mouth of a man who wants to win the Republican primary. How will this play out to the far right Republicans who cheer at the site of a man dying without insurance? The Republican party loves to run against what they call "Obamacare" and try to demonize it at every turn even when it has shown that it has been responsible for over 1 million people gaining health care so far. It's possible however, that Romney knows that if he wins the nomination, he can't attack President Obama over health care because he did something very similar as Governor of Massachusetts. It looks like Romney is trying to turn the tables and take credit for it. Will it work with the conservative base? It's doubtful.
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