The ghost of Hillary Clinton's past roamed New Hampshire yesterday as Clinton and John Edwards touched on her time in the White House, albeit in different ways.

Fourteen years ago Clinton spoke at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center to promote her failed health care plan and yesterday she returned to begin detailing a new plan. The Nashua Telegraph's Kevin Landrigan reports Clinton wants to improve the quality of health care by training for doctors, increasing certifications and federal money for caregivers who "treat the patient as a whole person." Her proposal would include $250 million in federal spending to "help patients make better choices about their coverage." Clinton said, "The idea is that we have to really empower patients, not shift costs on to them under the guise of so-called consumer-driven care."

Edwards was a scant six miles away from Clinton when he lambasted her time in the White House. Calling again for change that doesn't swap "insiders of one party for the Washington insiders of another," Edwards said "the American people deserve to know that their presidency is not for sale, the Lincoln Bedroom is not for rent." In another swipe at Clinton, Edwards told the audience that "the problem with nostalgia is what we tend to do is only remember what you like and you forget the parts you didn't like."

Barack Obama made a unique electability argument yesterday, admitting that his "biggest weakness in the general election is the same as in the primary election, which is: Hasn't been on the national stage that long," Obama said. "We're not sure if he's tough enough. Let me tell you, if I beat the Clintons, folks aren't going to ask whether I'm tough enough."

Regarding Clinton's (and Sen. Carl Levin's) call for Iraqi Prime Minister Malaki to be replaced, Obama said the debate over his efficacy is the wrong one. "I think this is a distraction -- this whole notion of 'is Maliki the right guy?'" Obama told CNN. "We can replace Maliki with four, five other guys, but if the underlying political dynamic is not changing, then we will not see progress in Iraq."

Meanwhile, Joe Biden told Nevadans that "there are not 12 Republican senators that support the president" on Iraq, reports the Las Vegas Review-Journal's Paul Harasim. Biden said he wants most U.S. forces out of Iraq by next summer, leaving a "residual force to keep Iraqis and their neighbors honest."

On the Republican side, Mitt Romney will announce his health care plan today. The Wall Street Journal's Mary Jacoby and Sarah Lueck report that Romney is "altering sharply" his approach to health care, mainly because he's apparently dropped the mandate for individuals and employers to purchase health insurance, which was the central plank of his Massachusetts plan. Instead, Romney "plans to focus on tax breaks and streamlining regulations," by changing the federal tax code – an option he didn't have as a governor, but would as president. The plan is heavily influenced by Romney advisor Glenn Hubbard.

Individuals would be able to deduct their "health-care premiums, co-pays and out-of-pocket expenses. That is aimed at altering the current system, where the cost of employer-sponsored group health insurance isn't considered taxable income -- resulting in a break for companies and workers that many Republicans say skews the system toward group coverage and undermines the individual market."

The plan would give states" more flexibility to design their own plans for covering more of the uninsured," envisioning broader coverage by "redirecting existing funds, including, if states choose, their allotments from the Medicaid program for the poor." Romney calls for replacing the current federal funding portion of Medicare (a joint venture with states) with a block grant -- an idea that is sure to "prompt criticism from Democrats who fought a similar Republican plan in the 1990s." The plan would also "encourage states to reform their health-insurance regulatory agencies. The Romney campaign blames over-regulation at the state level for the wide swings in the cost of insurance premiums from state to state, from an average of $1,885 a year in California to $6,048 a year in New Jersey, the campaign says."

Back to inside baseball: the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza reports that Rudy Giuliani has settled on his media team, led by "Scott Howell and Company -- one of the most successful and controversial media firms in the business." Firm partner Heath Thompson will lead Giuliani's effort and he's seen as a "rising star in the media world" and has "extensive experience" in South Carolina. Howell and Co. handled the TV strategy for Sens. Talent, Coleman, Chambliss in 2002, Sens. Thune and DeMint in 2004 and last year the Corker-Ford Tennesee Senate race where it produced the somewhat infamous ad of a faux Playboy bunny asking Ford to "call me."

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