Brown, Romney, Palin vs. Health Care

Three prominent politicians, two from the Bay State, found themselves commenting on the health care reform President Barack Obama is advocating this week. Whether they wanted to or not.

• On Monday, Senator Scott Brown called the health care plan being pushed by some Congressional Democrats "wrong" at the National Association of Health Underwriters (NAHU) conference. Brown knows his audience and sticks to his message: no backroom deals, state's rights, jobs, no reconciliation. Brown is also clearly not talking to Bostonist. "As I speak to people all across this country, they’re not really talking about health care,” he said. Come to Bostonist's kitchen for health care talk.

• Mitt Romney has been selling books all across America as a not so subtle precursor to a possible 2012 presidential campaign. A Herald report suggest his time as Governor of Massachusetts, specifically his health care reform plan, could again be his fatal flaw. The Herald reported conservatives are making Romney's plan an issue since it subsidizes abortions, or at least one blogger said so on Twitter.

• And, of course, what health care reform blog would be complete without a Sarah Palin reference. The latest from Wasilla is that her family went to Canada for health care when she was just a kid in Skagway, Alaska. Her father took her brother to Whitehorse in Canada’s Yukon Territory a couple of times in the 1960's. Canadian style, universal single-payer health care death panels must have scarred the future former less-than-one-term governor for life.