EXCLUSIVE: Romney in 2011 on Health Care: "Maybe After Ten Years"

While everybody was focused on the vice presidential debate yesterday, Colorado Pols unearthed previously-unseen video of Mitt Romney speaking at an Aurora bar in 2011:

ROMNEY: We have to change our setting to get a more market-driven health care sector. And if we do that, I'm convinced that we'll find ourselves bringing the cost of health care down. But that's not going to happen, by me or anybody else putting in place a new federal program to take over health care. The right answer is to let states craft their own solutions, give them the freedom to do so, we'll try different ideas in different states, and then, maybe after ten years, we'll figure out which one's working best.

But the right answer is not Obamacare or a federal takeover...

So, those of you out there with pre-existing conditions who may have been reassured by Mitt Romney's recent promises to make sure Americans with pre-existing conditions can get covered, please remember that according to this video clip of Romney speaking candidly right here in Colorado, he's talking about a hypothetical situation ten years from now.

Depending on the seriousness of your pre-existing condition, you might well be dead by then.

But don't you feel better now that you've finally been given a straight answer?