Posted on 11/15/2011 11:17:24 AM PST by BarnacleCenturion
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Sunday that he strongly supports a federal mandate requiring citizens to buy health insurance – a position that has been rejected by many Republicans, including several who likely will be running against him for the Republican presidential nomination.
Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Gingrich told host David Gregory that he continues to advocate for a plan he first called for in the early 1990s as a Congressman, which requires every uninsured citizen to purchase or acquire health insurance.
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Enjoyed your reply. Thanks.
SJB.
Hey brother, one team, one fight!!!
For the record, I don’t miss those folks. Thought I knew them, but...
When you have and hold to principles, you discover who your real friends are, real fast.
“...how about sighting in on the lawyers ???...”
Ohh...Wait...you said REIGNING in the lawyers...
Sorry...that slipped out...I don’t know WHAT came over me... :^)
There’s drawing threads together and then there’s fantasies to advance an agenda.
You still haven’t convinced me that a Freshman Republican Congressman in a Democrat Congress whipped up the votes to pass the bill. If he did that I’m sure there would be interviews or whatever from that time with people praising Newt or acknowledging his part in the passage. If you want me to pull the threads together, you’re going to have to supply the last thread.
Wow. That’s educational.
Well said! From many aspects.
Mitt is the only option /s.
How does that square with his support for an individual mandate?
Apart from the constitutional question, it concerns me that Newt apparently was unaware of just how deeply the individual mandate was opposed by the American people, particularly conservatives.
Does it concern you that Newt supports and finds no problem with an individual mandate to purchase health insurance, the same type of mandate that was key to Romneycare and Obamacare (actually Hillarycare, too — in fact, it’s key to all SOCIALIZED MEDICINE programs)?
P.S. I replied to your post, but if I missed the /s button, sorry!
Just for your info, this is blatantly false and something I took as fact until this week.
Gingrich has been married three times. In 1962, he married Jackie Battley, his former high school geometry teacher, when he was 19 years old and she was 26. In the spring of 1980, Gingrich left Battley after having an affair with Marianne Ginther. In 1984, Battley told the Washington Post that the divorce was a "complete surprise" to her. According to Battley, in September 1980, Gingrich and their children visited her while she was in the hospital, recovering from surgery, and Gingrich wanted to discuss the terms of their divorce. Gingrich has disputed that account.
In 2011, their daughter, Jackie Gingrich Cushman, said that it was her mother who requested the divorce, that it happened prior to the hospital stay (which was for the removal of a benign tumor, not cancer), and that Gingrich's visit was for the purpose of bringing the couple's children to see their mother, not to discuss the divorce.
The DOE was established in the Carter administration. Undoing DOE was a major part of Ronald Reagan’s campaign. But Carter was convinced that the 55 MPH speed limit was the major cause of his defeat.:)
Strangely the double nickel was undone but not DOE.
Seems to be a lot of tearer-downers and very few builder-uppers.
Here is a better one. You already pay a tax for healthcare just like you pay for uninsured motorists.
You carry uninsured motorists policy to protect you from being damaged by an uninsured motorist, but if you have a claim agains an uninsured motorists, it is charged against your insurance which raises your rate.
When and insured patines goes to the hospital the insurance is over billed to make up for the patient who doesn't have insurance, it has been an open policy that I know of for at least 60 years.
Example I had some stints put in at a Blue Cross provider Hospital, that means they have contracted with Blue Cross to accept whatever is reasonable and customary. Blue Cross was billed $106.000.00 for the procedure they paid $6,000.00 and I was responsible for none of the over charge.
There is the real problem chew on that.
Charles I think the government really wants people to die after they become unproductive, otherwise pretty good post.
It’s false that he’s been married 3 times and cheated on his wife?
The real problem is that O-Care forces me to fund abortion.
If Newt’s in favor of me paying for other people to have an abortion, all I can say is, “Say it ain’t so, Joe”. I won’t.
Toss me in jail if you want, but I will not fund it. Not now, not ever.
Yes, cost shifting to pay for people who are irresponsible is a problem. But a different problem from the Constitutionality of a federal individual mandate.
This is vintage Newt, and the reason why, even though he can uncork sound statements, he doesn’t truly get it and I can’t support him.
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