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This is a startling assertion by the presumptive GOP candidate, which he has made in several forms in recent weeks.
In essence, Romney has taken a debatable assertion — that government “consumes” 37 percent of the economy — and then hyped it with a nonsensical non sequitur — that the health-care law extends the “reach” of government to 50 percent of the economy.
Clearly, the Romney campaign does not want to abandon this claim, despite the poor reviews it has received from various experts.
But it makes little sense and is frankly a bit foolish — especially for a candidate whose signature legislative achievement as Massachusetts governor was to enact a health-care law that at the state level included insurance exchanges, Medicaid expansion, an individual mandate and other provisions that he now claims extend the “reach” of government.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...out-obamacare/2012/06/11/gJQAdGtdVV_blog.html