Mitt Romney has rediscovered Romneycare. Under attack for his apparent lack of empathy, Romney in an NBC News interview on Wednesday pointed to his Massachusetts health care reforms as proof that he cares about poor and low-income families:

Don’t forget, I got everybody in my state insured. One hundred percent of the kids in our state had health insurance. I don’t think there’s anything that shows more empathy and care about the people of this country than that kind of record

For what it’s worth, I’ve always suspected Romney’s motive in Massachusetts had more to do with efficiency than social justice. He saw reform as a way to make the state’s health care system more rational and to make people accept more financial responsibility for their own medical care. Still, he deserves credit—and praise—for helping to design, promote, and then implement a law that has made health care more affordable for the people of Massachusetts.

But in politics empathy isn’t simply about rhetoric. Its about policy. Here, again, is what Romney has proposed on health care.

1. Romney wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which would bring Massachusetts-style reforms to the rest of the country and make insurance available to almost everyone.

2. He wants to hand Medicaid over to the states and then, in short order, dramatically reduce its funding.