[lbo-talk] Brad Delong on the Republican roots of Obamacare

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Mar 23 21:30:19 PDT 2010


On Mar 23, 2010, at 11:47 PM, Michael Pollak wrote:


> http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/201077/The_curious_triumph_of_RomneyCare
>
> The conservative DNA of ObamaCare is hardly a secret. "The Obama
> plan has a broad family resemblance to Mitt Romney's Massachusetts
> plan," Frum wrote. "It builds on ideas developed at the Heritage
> Foundation in the early 1990s that formed the basis for Republican
> counter-proposals to ClintonCare in 1993-1994."

But now, of course, it's socialism.

Doug



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