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Mitt Romney Rejects Demands To Apologize For Health Care Plan
First Posted: 05/12/11 03:36 PM ET Updated: 05/12/11 03:44 PM ET

WASHINGTON -- Potential Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney rejected conservative critics who say he should apologize for approving a government mandate to obtain health insurance when he was governor of Massachusetts. Romney defended his actions in a Thursday speech to doctors in Michigan.

"A lot of pundits around the nation are saying I should stand up and just say, 'This whole thing was a mistake,'" Romney said, speaking at the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center. "I presume a lot of folks would conclude that if I did that that would be good for me politically."

"But there's only one problem with that. It wouldn't be honest," Romney said. He admitted later in his remarks that he considered the health care plan a political asset when he ran for president four years ago, but said he realizes now that it is a liability.

Romney spent half of his speech defending the Massachusetts plan -- which required the six percent of the state's citizens who were not insured to obtain health insurance or pay a "bond" of roughly $125 a month -- before turning to a critique of President Obama's health care overhaul passed last year by Congress.

He admitted that some of the aspects of the state plan, which has already led to government price controls to try to rein in costs, have not worked like he had hoped, but concluded: "Overall am I proud of the fact that we did our best for our people and got people insured? Absolutely."...................>>>>.....................>>>>.................http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/12/mitt-romney-rejects-deman_n_861230.html

A little too late for Romney! His health care has just about bankrupt his state.
It wouldn't surprise me if his own state will carry him.
They don't call it tax-achusetts for nothing!!

He'll be the REP. nominee by default.   Just a feeling.

he doesn't have to apologize for anything the plebs enmasse' agree to...with or without logic.....pay attention