The Hill reports: “Requiring people to have health insurance is ‘conservative,’ GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney told MSNBC on Wednesday, but only if states do it.” The Hill adds: “The argument aims to improve Romney’s appeal to Republican voters concerned about the healthcare reform plan he signed into law as governor of Massachusetts in 2006. The Massachusetts law contains an individual mandate similar to the one in President Obama’s healthcare law, which conservatives despise.”
In the interview, Romney said that the individual mandate came about in response to asking the question, “How do we get individuals to take responsibility for their own health care?” Romney added, “There are a number of ways of encouraging personal responsibility.”
