Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has sometimes gotten testy — most recently in an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier — when it is suggested he has claimed the health care plan he created in Massachusetts should be a model for the nation. In fact, Romney has said on many occasions that he did not intend Romneycare to be a model for a national plan but that it would be appropriate for individual states. “I think it’s a good model for other states,” he said on “Meet the Press” in December 2007. “Maybe not every state, but most.”
That was four years ago. Today, Romney’s Massachusetts health plan is a sore spot with many Republican voters as he pursues the GOP presidential nomination. Romney has found himself on many occasions denying that he ever thought the plan would be a model for the nation. But what about the states? When Romney visited the Washington Examiner offices Wednesday morning, I asked what states would benefit by adopting the system he created in Massachusetts.
