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The Republican Who Thinks Big on Health Care
Governor Mitt Romney's gamble for Massachusetts
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Governor Mitt Romney is a Massachusetts politician with a long,
narrow face, an impossible shock of hair and presidential ambitions.
He's also pretty tall. But any resemblance to another recent
Massachusetts politician who ran for President evaporates the moment
Romney opens his mouth: his demeanor and metabolism are the opposite
of John Kerry's—informal, conversational, enthusiastic and speedy.
Or maybe it was just that we were talking about his rather remarkable
plan to bring mandatory universal health-care coverage to Massachusetts by
next summer, the first time a Republican has tried to pull off...