In Health Care Debate, U-Word Is Back

Republican presidential hopeful former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks about health care reform to the Florida Medical Association's annual meeting in Hollywood, Fla. in this Aug. 24, 2007 file photo. "Let me tell ya, if we don't do it, the Democrats will," warns Romney about health care reform. "And if the Democrats do it, it'll be socialized medicine. It will be government-managed care. It'll be what's known as Hillary-care or Barack Obama-care or whatever you want to call it." (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

(AP) -- It's been 14 years since first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's health care reform plan sank like a stone, swallowed by fears of a big-government power grab. In the years since, wary presidential candidates at first avoided the issue altogether, then gingerly dipped one toe, then another, back into the pool.