New York – The former House speaker used to say government should make people buy health insurance — a tenet of ‘ObamaCare’ fiercely opposed by the Right
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney delivered a “full-throated” defense of his state’s health care law on Thursday, but he’s not the only Republican presidential hopeful who’ll need to explain his record on health reform. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich “has been a vocal champion for mandated insurance coverage — the very provision of President Obama’s health care legislation that the Republican Party now decries as fundamentally unconstitutional,” says Sam Stein at The Huffington Post. Will health care be an albatross for Newt, too?
Newt dug his own political grave: Gingrich might not want to admit it now, says Jed Lewison at Daily Kos, but before the individual mandate became a conservative target, Gingrich said that everyone who could afford it should be required to buy insurance. He proposed subsidies so poor people could get private insurance, too. So, “according to the conservative world view, doesn’t that make Newt Gingrich a supporter of tyranny?”
“Newt Gingrich also supported federally mandated health care coverage”
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