Jun 28, 2012 ... One Republican supporter who changed his position was former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. During the Republican primary, candidate Michele Bachmann charged that Gingrich "first advocated for the individual mandate in health care. And as recently as May of this year, he was still advocating" ...
Feb 7, 2012 ... But as Romney said in a debate in Las Vegas last October, “we got the idea of an individual mandate…from [Newt Gingrich], and [Newt] got it from the .... With these considerations in mind, in 1989, Stuart Butler of the Heritage Foundation proposed a plan he called “Assuring Affordable Health Care for All ...
BACHMANN: You'd have to go back to 1993 when Newt first advocated for the individual mandate in healthcare, and as recently as May of this year, he was still advocating for the individual mandate in healthcare. GINGRICH: In 1993, in fighting HillaryCare, virtually every conservative saw the mandate as a less-dangerous ...
Dec 12, 2011 ... FACT CHECKER BIOGRAPHY | GOP candidate Newt Gingrich once proposed individual health-care mandates, but now he opposes them. Why the ... EDITOR'S NOTE: This column will be the first in a series of five columns this week examining how factual former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has been in ...
Feb 14, 2012 ... Mitt Romney is often challenged by Republican rivals about the health care law he signed as the governor of Massachusetts, which also contains an individual mandate. Mr. Gingrich is often asked about his years of support for the idea. And Mr. Obama — who opposed the individual mandate four years ago ...
In 1993, Newt Gingrich "first advocated for the individual mandate in health care. And as recently as May of this year, he was still advocating" for it.