It was a liberal fabrication that the Romney health care plan had any substantive similarities to Obamacare.
Additionally, the 10th amendment should have prevented national healthcare, but each state would remain free to attempt any healthcare plan their voters would embrace.
Don't get me wrong, Romneycare sucked, but Obama and the Democrats own Obamacare. It had NOTHING to do with Romney.
Agree that Romenycare and Øcare are worlds apart... the problem in 2012 was that Romeny couldn’t *effectively* campaign on the health care issue. Perhaps it was because of Romenycare, perhaps it was his severe conservatism... having Romeny as the candidate *removed* health care from the campaign as an issue.