[SmokingJoe]

“If they do, the Republicans will be partly at fault. It was a Republican, Mitt Romney, who first introduced the idea of an individual mandate in his role as governor of Massachusetts. And many of Romney’s fellow Republicans in Congress accepted the concept of the mandate”

Total rubbish! Exactly how did they do that? Romney has never been in the US Senate.

[edzo4]

it is total rubbish, in the MA state house pubs are out number by dems 9 to 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney#Healthcare

Romney vetoed eight sections of the health care legislation, including an employer assessment and provisions providing health coverage to senior and disabled legal immigrants not eligible for federal Medicaid. The legislature overrode all eight vetoes.