Team Romney statement on health care reform: "an unforced error of monumental idiocy"?

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/Decoder-Wire/2012/0809/Health-care-reform-Has-Team-Romney-embraced-the-individual-mandate

Health-care reform: Has Team Romney embraced the individual mandate?

Conservatives have howled over the health-care reform law's requirement that people buy insurance. But recent comments from the Romney campaign have some wondering if the presumptive GOP nominee is now embracing it.      

By Peter Grier, Staff writer / August 9, 2012

"Has Team Romney endorsed the individual mandate, the central pillar of President Obama’s health-care law that the GOP otherwise loves to hate?

A Romney official seemed to indicate that Wednesday.

Commenting on the harsh ad just released by a pro-Obama "super PAC," in which an ex-steelworker basically blames Bain Capital for his uninsured wife’s death, spokeswoman Andrea Saul told Fox News that “if people had been in Massachusetts, under Governor Romney’s health-care plan, they would have had health care.”"