(CNN) -- For Mitt Romney, it's not just a question -- it's more like a campaign illness he'd like to cure once and for all. "I was hoping I would be asked that question. Great. It's about time," Romney joked at a recent GOP forum in New Hampshire. The question, of course, was about the health care reform bill Romney signed into law as governor of Massachusetts in 2006. "Ours is an experiment. Some parts didn't work," he explained to the crowd. What many tea party conservatives can't stand about the Massachusetts health care law dubbed "Romneycare" is the plan's individual mandate that requires people in that state to buy medical insurance or pay a tax penalty.
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Mitt Romney is the former governor of Massachusetts and 2008 GOP presidential nominee
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Romney is under fire for a health care plan he signed into law as governor
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Republicans and Democrats see "Romneycare" as the prototype for what conservatives deride as "Obamacare"
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