Can country get to yes on health care?

Joan Vennochi, Boston Globe, February 28, 2010 It’s too bad the two men who got Massachusetts to yes on health insurance reform can’t help the country get to yes on it. One of them - Democratic Senator Edward M. Kennedy - is dead. The other one - Republican Mitt Romney - is politically dead in his party if he plays the same role nationally as he did as governor. In Massachusetts, he was pivotal. “Massachusetts was able to get to yes because the leading public official who kicked it off was Mitt Romney,’’ John McDonough, a former state representative and leading architect of the Massachusetts health insurance overhaul, told Globe reporter ... Can