Is Romneycare Obamacare?

Professor Samuelson has an editorial in the Post this morning in which he 1) compares the Massachusetts healtcare rubric to that created by Mr. Obama and the Congress and 2) lays out some of the problems with the Massachusetts plan--the primary one of course being that it did nothing to control costs (sound familiar, America?).

All this is interesting as a matter of policy; but it is also interesting as a matter of politics.  On the radio show last week, caller "Laura" wondered aloud whether Mitt Romney's association with the Massachusetts healthcare imbroglio would be an albatross around his would-be presidential neck in the Republican primaries--I agreed it would be an issue, but one I thought he could overcome.

The more I think about this, the more I think Laura might be right....