Romney: Ending ObamaCare Top Priority

Reuters reports

Republican Mitt Romney said on Wednesday that reversing healthcare reforms passed in 2010, a signature element of President Barack Obama's agenda, would be a top priority if he were elected president in 2012.

"If I am elected president, I will issue on my first day in office an executive order paving the way for waivers from ObamaCare for all 50 states," Romney wrote in an opinion piece to run in Thursday's edition of USA Today.

The article comes before a speech at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Thursday in which Romney is likely to outline a new set of policies to replace Obama's healthcare overhaul law.

Romney, expected to run for the Republican nomination for President in 2012, is attempting to blunt criticism by conservatives that the healthcare plan he developed for Massachusetts as governor bears many similarities to Obama's reforms.