Romney: Health Care Promises ‘Rotting’ Obama’s Second Term (VIDEO)

FILE - In this June 28, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks about the Supreme Court ruling on health care in Washington. President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney say the Sup... FILE - In this June 28, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks about the Supreme Court ruling on health care in Washington. President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney say the Supreme Court’s decision last week upholding the president’s health care law gives them each advantages in the roughly dozen of states they are contesting most aggressively. Obama’s team says the decision has swelled the ranks -- by the thousands -- of campaign volunteers in states he won in 2008 and hopes to again to seal his re-election. Romney is claiming success using the ruling as a fundraising tool, saying thousands of small contributions have poured in from across the battleground map as the law’s opponents have seized on Romney as a last hope to repeal it. Both say the groundswell is on their side, and could make the difference in winning and losing. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) MORE LESS

By Catherine Thompson

November 4, 2013 2:05 a.m.

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Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate who lost to Barack Obama in 2012, said Sunday that the President’s “dishonesty” about his signature health care law was “rotting” his second term.

“Whether you like the model of Obamacare or not, the fact that the President has sold it on a basis that was not true has undermined the foundation of his second term,” Romney said in an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “I think it’s rotting it away.”

The former presidential candidate was referring to reports that millions of Americans had received cancellation notices from their insurers, which conservatives seized on to suggest Obama broke his oft-repeated campaign promise that people who were happy with their insurance plans could keep them under the Affordable Care Act.

Romney argued that state-based plans would be a better model to adopt than a “one-size-fits-all” health care system. To rebuild credibility, he said, the President must work with both Republicans and Democrats to rebuild the law.

“We’ve got to have a President that can lead, and right now he is not able to do so,” he said.

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Catherine Thompson (@kt_thomps) Catherine Thompson is a senior editor for Talking Points Memo in New York City. She came to the site in 2013 and reported on national affairs. Previously, she worked as a research assistant to investigative reporter Wayne Barrett. She can be reached at catherine@talkingpointsmemo.com.

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