WASHINGTON – So much for Mitt Romney escaping health care.

Reminders of the Republican presidential candidate’s signature achievement as Massachusetts governor – a sweeping state health care overhaul – now are everywhere. And Democrats and liberals – from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to President Barack Obama to party faithful in Congress – are making sure everyone knows that Romney’s requirement that all people have health insurance was the basis of the federal mandate the Supreme Court upheld as a tax.

“Congress followed Massachusetts’ lead,” Ginsburg wrote in the landmark decision. By design or not, she ended up giving Democrats ammunition against Romney.