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If the individual won't be mandated to pay for insurance, and employers won't be mandated to pay for insurance for their employees, but everyone will be able to have insurance coverage -- who is paying? And why isn't Gingrich spelling it out here?

Just read what you posted "For those who nevertheless choose not to purchase coverage and then become too sick to do so, high risk pools will provide access to coverage." No mandate, you are free not to purchase coverage and if you don't, high risk pools will provide access to healthcare.

[fightinJAG]

And who is paying for the high risk pools? Is the individual mandated to pay at that point? What if the individaul refuses to participate in the high risk pool, as has happened already under Obamacare?

The bottom line is that there is nowhere to go here except back to the taxpayers.

That may, in the end, be a fact of life. But this is another example, in my view, of Gingrich shooting off his mouth, using a term with specific Lefty connotations and linking it to a principle on the right. without any qualification. Just “no mandate plus FREE STUFF!”

That is just a mess.