Bombshell: Audio of Newt Gingrich Endorsing Obamacare

[truthsaga]

"We believe…that everyone must have health-insurance," Gingrich says. "Or if you are an absolute libertarian, we would allow you to post a bond, but we would not allow people to be free-riders, failing to insure themselves and then show up at the emergency room with no means of payment."

Read more: BOMBSHELL: Here's A Tape Of Newt Gingrich Endorsing Obamacare

 

[Chris]

Mandatory insurance is a Republican idea from the 1990's.

The only reason the Republicans are against it now is because Obama presented it.

Obama is barely to the left of George Bush.

 

[Warrior102]

"We believe…that everyone must have health-insurance," Gingrich says. "Or if you are an absolute libertarian, we would allow you to post a bond, but we would not allow people to be free-riders, failing to insure themselves and then show up at the emergency room with no means of payment."

Read more: BOMBSHELL: Here's A Tape Of Newt Gingrich Endorsing Obamacare

Dumbfuck - listen to his words.
Carefully this time.

Idiot

 

[Warrior102]

Mandatory insurance is a Republican idea from the 1990's.

Link? Or fantasy from the windmills of your stupid mind?

 

[grunt11b]

Of course everybody wishes that everyone had healthcare, that was never the issue. The issue is with the mandate, it is unconstitutional.

 

[Charles_Main]

"We believe…that everyone must have health-insurance," Gingrich says. "Or if you are an absolute libertarian, we would allow you to post a bond, but we would not allow people to be free-riders, failing to insure themselves and then show up at the emergency room with no means of payment."

Read more: BOMBSHELL: Here's A Tape Of Newt Gingrich Endorsing Obamacare

Kinda hard to call something he said years before Obamacare, and Endorsement of Obamacare specifically.

Typical stretching of the truth in Thread titles that seems to permeate every fiber of this board.

 

[Sherry]

Mandatory insurance is a Republican idea from the 1990's.

The only reason the Republicans are against it now is because Obama presented it.

Obama is barely to the left of George Bush.

If that's your belief, then how do you stomach Obama??

 

[Warrior102]

"We believe…that everyone must have health-insurance," Gingrich says. "Or if you are an absolute libertarian, we would allow you to post a bond, but we would not allow people to be free-riders, failing to insure themselves and then show up at the emergency room with no means of payment."

Read more: BOMBSHELL: Here's A Tape Of Newt Gingrich Endorsing Obamacare

Resume licking Ron Paul's undies and skid marks. You're useless.

 

[Chris]

Mandatory insurance is a Republican idea from the 1990's.

Link? Or fantasy from the windmills of your stupid mind?

Are you really this ignorant?

Do a little reading...

WASHINGTON — Republicans were for President Obama’s requirement that Americans get health insurance before they were against it.

The obligation in the new health care law is a Republican idea that has been around at least two decades. It was once trumpeted as an alternative to Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton’s failed health care overhaul in the 1990s. These days, Republicans call it government overreach.

Mitt Romney, weighing another run for the GOP presidential nomination, signed such a requirement into law at the state level as Massachusetts governor in 2006. At the time, Romney defended it as “a personal responsibility principle’’ and Massachusetts’ newest GOP senator, Scott Brown, backed it. Romney now says Obama’s plan is a federal takeover that bears little resemblance to what he did as governor and should be repealed.

In the early 1970s, President Nixon favored a mandate that employers provide insurance. In the 1990s, the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, embraced an individual requirement. Not anymore.

“The idea of an individual mandate as an alternative to single-payer was a Republican idea,’’ said health economist Mark Pauly of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. In 1991, he published a paper that explained how a mandate could be combined with tax credits — two ideas that are now part of Obama’s law. Pauly’s paper was well-received — by the George H.W. Bush administration.

“It could have been the basis for a bipartisan compromise, but it wasn’t,’’ said Pauly. “Because the Democrats were in favor, the Republicans more or less had to be against it.’’

Obama rejected a key part of Pauly’s proposal: doing away with the tax-free status of employer-sponsored health care and replacing it with a standard tax credit for all Americans.

Romney’s success in Massachusetts with a bipartisan health plan that featured a mandate put the idea on the table for the 2008 presidential candidates.

Brown, whose election to replace the late Democratic Edward M. Kennedy almost led to the collapse of Obama’s plan, said his opposition to the new law is over tax increases, Medicare cuts, and federal overreach on a matter that he says should be left up to states. Not so much the requirement, which he voted for as a state lawmaker. “In Massachusetts, it helped us deal with the very real problem of uncompensated care,’’ Brown said.

Health insurance mandate began as a Republican idea - Boston.com

 

[Chris]

Mandatory insurance is a Republican idea from the 1990's.

The only reason the Republicans are against it now is because Obama presented it.

Obama is barely to the left of George Bush.

If that's your belief, then how do you stomach Obama??

Obama is competent.

 

[Warrior102]

Obama is competent.

Not at golfing, bowling, CINC, or leading our nation.

 

[Chris]

Obama is competent.

Not at golfing, bowling, CINC, or leading our nation.

George W. Bush inherited a strong economy, a budget surplus, and a nation at peace.

Eight years later, he left Obama with a shattered economy, a trillion dollar deficit, and two useless wars.

Obama saved the country from another Great Depression, rebuilt GM, reformed healthcare, reformed Wall Street, doubled the stock market, created 8 straight quarters of GDP growth, created 22 straight months of private sector job growth, got Bin Laden, got Gaddafi, and got us out of Iraq.

And now with the automatic spending cuts and the expiration of the Bush tax cuts in 2012, Obama has solved the deficit problem as well.

Obama has done a very good job.

 

[Avorysuds]

"We believe…that everyone must have health-insurance," Gingrich says. "Or if you are an absolute libertarian, we would allow you to post a bond, but we would not allow people to be free-riders, failing to insure themselves and then show up at the emergency room with no means of payment."

Read more: BOMBSHELL: Here's A Tape Of Newt Gingrich Endorsing Obamacare

Kinda hard to call something he said years before Obamacare, and Endorsement of Obamacare specifically.

Typical stretching of the truth in Thread titles that seems to permeate every fiber of this board.

lol... Just another big government conservative. So if Newtiecare was the name of it then you would be on board, lol.

 

[Avorysuds]

"We believe…that everyone must have health-insurance," Gingrich says. "Or if you are an absolute libertarian, we would allow you to post a bond, but we would not allow people to be free-riders, failing to insure themselves and then show up at the emergency room with no means of payment."

Read more: BOMBSHELL: Here's A Tape Of Newt Gingrich Endorsing Obamacare

Resume licking Ron Paul's undies and skid marks. You're useless.

Next up the Progressive Neocon attacks a real conservative Ron Paul for being, well... conservative. Shocker!

 

[truthsaga]

Obama is competent.

Not at golfing, bowling, CINC, or leading our nation.

George W. Bush inherited a strong economy, a budget surplus, and a nation at peace.

Eight years later, he left Obama with a shattered economy, a trillion dollar deficit, and two useless wars.

Obama saved the country from another Great Depression, rebuilt GM, reformed healthcare, reformed Wall Street, doubled the stock market, created 8 straight quarters of GDP growth, created 22 straight months of private sector job growth, got Bin Laden, got Gaddafi, and got us out of Iraq.

And now with the automatic spending cuts and the expiration of the Bush tax cuts in 2012, Obama has solved the deficit problem as well.

Obama has done a very good job.

I see George W. Bush and Obama as the same when it comes to policy. Bush has governmental increases with no child left behind, the two wars, patriot act, prescription drug program. The occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan still continue as we have a base bigger then Vatican in Iraq. He moved troops into Libya with international consent and has most recently signed a treaty on executive authority regarding the internet. Both have been very dangerous to peace and freedom at home.

The budget was balanced by dipping into Social Security funds and the artificial low interest rates and the line of credit from The Federal Reserve shouldn't be ignored in the Clinton years.

 

[truthsaga]

"We believe…that everyone must have health-insurance," Gingrich says. "Or if you are an absolute libertarian, we would allow you to post a bond, but we would not allow people to be free-riders, failing to insure themselves and then show up at the emergency room with no means of payment."

Read more: BOMBSHELL: Here's A Tape Of Newt Gingrich Endorsing Obamacare

Dumbfuck - listen to his words.
Carefully this time.

Idiot

I'm not the one that needs to be careful.

 

[Avatar4321]

Mandatory insurance is a Republican idea from the 1990's.

The only reason the Republicans are against it now is because Obama presented it.

Obama is barely to the left of George Bush.

If that's your belief, then how do you stomach Obama??

Obama is competent.

Do you live in Bizzaro world or something?

 

[Avatar4321]

BTW this is hardly a bombshell. It's public knowledge that Newt has been supportng a Federal Mandate in health care for the past 2 decades.

Somehow though, that makes Newt conservative and Romney progressive despite Romney's continued argument for State rights.

 

[Avorysuds]

BTW this is hardly a bombshell. It's public knowledge that Newt has been supportng a Federal Mandate in health care for the past 2 decades.

Somehow though, that makes Newt conservative and Romney progressive despite Romney's continued argument for State rights.

I agree, both Newt and Mitt are just Progressive.

 

[Greenbeard]

Bombshell: Audio of Newt Gingrich Endorsing Obamacare

Have you looked at his current campaign's issues page? The guy is in love with the ACA.

Kinda hard to call something he said years before Obamacare, and Endorsement of Obamacare specifically.

Years? More like five or six weeks.