If Romney had won in 2008, would he have tried to pass something like Obamacare?

[Mr. Morden]

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/01/what-if-romney-had-won-in-2008.html

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

of course

[Lief 🗽]

Undoubtedly. And a majority of GOP congressmen and Senators would have voted for it.

[Torie]

No, absolutely not, not after Lehman Brothers. One thing at a time. And the shape of his program when appropriate to broach, would be considerably different than Obama's, and use golden handcuffs rather than whips and chains (well as it turns out, wet noodles and rubber bands), to incentivize folks to get health insurance, and rely on inter-insurance company competition. And presumably he would have gotten better legal advice than Obama got - or at least listened to - since the wet noodle mandate is more likely than not going down, and taking the whole Act down with it.

And I hope Mittens would be creative and bold enough, to start a national discussion about converting Medicare over time into an HMO system. No other approach is workable.

[WillK]

Undoubtedly. And a majority of GOP congressmen and Senators would have voted for it.

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