US election: Mitt Romney is struggling with ObamaCare ‘problem’

Mark McKinnon, a former strategist to President George W Bush, said the Romney
camp were suffering from “message mayhem” on the topic.

Hogan Gidley, a former aide to Rick Santorum – the Right-wing former senator
beaten to the presidential nomination by Mr Romney – said in an interview: “I’m
not going to sugarcoat it, it’s a problem for the Republicans.”

Some 26 Republican-controlled states sued the government over the so-called “ObamaCare”
reforms, but were ultimately defeated in the Supreme Court’s ruling last
week. Since claiming victory, the President’s re-election team has begun
using the term “ObamaCare” – previously favoured only by his
critics – in campaign material.

Yet the law is still consistently found to be unpopular in opinion polls. A
new ABC News/Washington Post survey found yesterday that 47 per cent of
Americans viewed the law negatively, compared to 45 per cent who favoured
it.

However Mr Romney’s own vague plans for health care – starting with “repealing
and replacing ObamaCare” on day one of his presidency – were viewed
favourably by just 30 per cent of people, and negatively by 47 per cent.

Mr Romney’s stance on the subject has been undermined by “Romneycare”,
the Massachusetts system that was copied in the creation of Mr Obama’s
reform.

While Mr Romney now claims that he never believed it should be used across the
US, in fact he said in a 2007 speech that it was “a model for the nation”.

Mr Santorum has long maintained that Mr Romney would turn out to be the “worst
candidate” possible to take on Mr Obama over health care. Despite since
endorsing Mr Romney, he recently criticised the record of the mandate system
in Massachusetts, which now has some of the most expensive insurance in the
country.

“They have a series of problems with people who decide to take the tax,
in other words, pay the fine, instead of buying insurance, because it’s
cheaper,” Mr Santorum told an interview. “It doesn’t work.”

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