ObamaCare Incorporates Many Of Gingrich’s Health Care Proposals

[Lakhota]

By Igor Volsky

Despite growing evidence — and video footage — that he has previously supported a national health insurance mandate, Newt Gingrich continues to characterize the Affordable Care Act as a government takeover of the health care system that he would repeal on his first day in office. But a closer look at Gingrich’s past health care proposals, his work at the Center for Health Transformation, and numerous books about health care reform, suggest that the law he seeks to repeal includes many aspects of his own health care philosophies and proposals.

As the table below demonstrates, the provisions included in President Obama’s health reform law are more progressive than Gingrich would have allowed, but they aim to expand coverage and lower health care costs in very similar ways:

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[Full-Auto]

Why would anybody take Gingrich seriously?


Because he is not Obama.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Despite growing evidence — and video footage — that he has previously supported a national health insurance mandate, Newt Gingrich continues to characterize the Affordable Care Act as a government takeover of the health care system that he would repeal on his first day in office.

Apparently Gingrich is running for Dictator of America.

As the table below demonstrates, the provisions included in President Obama’s health reform law are more progressive than Gingrich would have allowed, but they aim to expand coverage and lower health care costs in very similar ways:

Yes, that was way back when republicans believed in responsible governance.

 

[editec]

Absolutely.

The Obama HC plan is very GOPish.

It forces people to buy for HC insurance from private corporations.

 

[konradv]

I guess it's Newbamneycare now, eh?