Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is now saying that the healthcare program he helped establish in Massachusetts was not designed to bring down the cost of healthcare in the Bay State -- yet that's not what he was claiming when he was in office.
Speaking at the Values Voter Summit in September, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney touted the Massachusetts healthcare system as an example of how universal coverage can be obtained "without breaking the bank." He told CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta last week though that aim of his Massachusetts plan was not to control healthcare costs. "We really were unable to deal with and didn't have any pretense that we would somehow be able to change healthcare costs in Massachusetts," Romney said. "Frankly we dealt with a much more narrow issue: getting people insured who weren't insured; and -- and this is just as important, perhaps even more important -- for those who are insured, making them understand they will never lose their coverage." Although Romney told CNN that lowering healthcare costs was not the original goal of the Massachusetts plan, that contradicts a 2006 Wall Street Journal editorial he penned that said "Every uninsured citizen in Massachusetts will soon have affordable health insurance and the costs of healthcare will be reduced."
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