Mitt Romney defends Massachusetts health care law in Las Vegas speech

Politico reports:

Mitt Romney directly addressed the Obama administration’s backhanded plaudits of his Massachusetts health care law Saturday, defending the law's controversial individual mandate for the first time and promising that it wouldn't impede an aggressive attack on the president and his health care policy.

"I will take [President Barack Obama] head on and aggressively if I'm the nominee," Romney told about 150 members of the Republican Jewish Coalition in town for their winter meeting.

Mitt probably will not be the nominee defending "regulated" health care.