Romney's Royal 'We' -- and 'Personal Responsibility'

Romney's Royal 'We' -- and 'Personal Responsibility'

When Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts, he saw a problem he believed government should solve. Ninety-three percent of the people in the state had health insurance -- including private insurance, Medicare and Medicaid -- but 7 percent did not.

Romney wanted to do something about this 7 percent -- some 460,000 people.

"Because right now in my state, and probably in your states, as well," Romney explained in a Jan. 26, 2006, presentation at the Heritage Foundation, "part of your insurance premium is paying for the people who don't have insurance, because when they get sick, they do...