Romney seeks to limit damage from remark about firing people [View all]

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HUDSON, N.H. — Mitt Romney sought to limit damage Monday from a morning comment about liking to "fire people" which he said was "taken out of context."

Romney, the former head of a private equity firm that sought to turn around troubled companies, said he was only talking about President Obama's healthcare plan and that political opponents were only doing what he expected them to do with the remark.

"As you know, I was speaking about insurance companies and the need to be able to make a choice," he told reporters after his tour of the Gilchrist Metal Fabricating factory.

"You saw I was talking about insurance companies. We like to be able to get rid of insurance companies that don't give us the services we need. I don't want to live in a world in which we have ObamaCare telling us which insurance we can have to have, which doctor we can have, which hospital we have to go to," he said.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/203137-romney-seeks-to-limit-damage-from-remark-about-firing-people