Dems take aim at Romney’s healthcare record

{mosads}Next, he can be heard saying “We put together an exchange and the president’s copying that idea. I’m glad to hear that.” Immediately after, he declares “ObamaCare is bad news.”

Romney has said he had an anti-abortion conversion in 2004, and has been consistent since then. And he argues that while parts of the Massachusetts healthcare reform package he signed into law as governor served as a model for the controversial federal law — notably its insurance exchange and tax credits — the law was a state solution to a state problem.

Still, Democrats are betting that the Massachusetts law’s requirement that everyone have insurance will mute criticism of the federal law — especially as the Supreme Court prepares to rule next year on whether to strike down the law’s unpopular individual mandate.