Romney mum on health care fix

Steven Thomma | McClatchy Newspapers

last updated: July 15, 2007 09:13:10 AM

BOSTON — In one of his many television ads, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney boasts of his can-do management as governor of Massachusetts.

"In the most liberal state in the country," the ads say, "in the toughest place, Mitt Romney's done the toughest things."

In another, Ann Romney says proudly of her husband, "Every place that Mitt has gone, he has solved problems that people said were nearly impossible."

Yet Romney's ads do not mention what is arguably his most impressive accomplishment as governor: pushing through universal health care for state residents.