I think Newt has made it pretty clear that he is not planning on an individual mandate or government run health insurance.
OTOH, Gingrich's website said that the goal and effect of his healthcare reform proposals will be to accomplish everything Obamacare was supposed to accomplish, but didn't. To wit: "universal coverage" (whatever Gingrich actually means by that). [I posted links upthread and won't repeat them here.]
If everyone is going to have health insurance, but individuals are not mandated to buy it and employers are not mandated to buy it for their employees (also prongs of the Gingrich plan), I'm wondering -- because he has yet to say -- how everyone will have insurance, but no one will be mandated to pay for it.
There are ways to do this (or at least universal ACCESS to coverage), I suppose, or get close. And there are even ways that *maybe* would be acceptable to conservatives.
But my problem with Gingrich's cheery website blurb is that he is getting an awful lot of mileage out of his new mantra of "no individual mandate," while at the same time he's so far getting a pass on answering the question: Well, then, okay: if, as you say, you're going to accomplish what Obamacare failed to accomplish -- i.e., universal coverage -- but without mandating indidivuals or employers to pay, please tell us HOW this will be paid for.
IOW, he seems to be dazzling a lot of people with his "no individual mandate" riff, but that's not the be-all and end-all of the issue.