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I've been personally very impressed with Mitt Romney on more than one occassion, but I have expressed concerns about his health care plan that seem unfortunately to be coming to pass. It could get much worse post-November as I pointed out in April:

Even if this plays out perfectly, it is not difficult to imagine this spiraling out of control should Democrats take over the Governor's office in 2006 after Romney retires. Combine that with the likely retention of the Democratic Party's 85 percent stranglehold on the legislature and it will be time to get the peoples' checkbook out and start re-buying those votes they may have lost. Will Democrats let themselves be outdone by a former Republican governor bragging on the presidential campaign trail about delivering universal health care? Such a scenario seems exceedingly unlikely.

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