Piping Up
By Sally Pipes
5.25.2011
Forbes.com

When GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney announced that he would deliver a landmark speech on health care earlier this month, many expected — or perhaps hoped — that he would admit that the reform plan he implemented as governor of Massachusetts was a mistake.

Instead, Romney doubled down. “A lot of pundits around the nation are saying that I should just stand up and say that it was a mistake. . . But there’s only one problem with that: I wouldn’t be honest. I, in fact, did what I believe was right for the people of my state,” he said.

Romney also tried to insist that Massachusetts’ plan was somehow better than President Obama’s federal health care law. “Our plan was a state solution to a state problem. [Obama's] is a power grab by the federal government to put in place a one-size-fits-all solution across the nation,” he said.