Why Romneycare is Romney's biggest problem

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney took some hard hits in Tuesday’s night’s Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas. He took a harder hit yesterday on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal. Noting the criticisms during the debate of Romney’s Massachusetts health care reform by former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and the common approaches of Romneycare and Obamacare to health care affordability, the Journal observed:

“The trouble with the Obama-Romney definition of ‘affordable’ is that in practice it means subsidies, and once the government provides ‘free’ health care, the private sector and entitlement state are fungible.