Monday, January 30, 2012

Gingrich in 2009: We need a must-carry law on health insurance

by Ed Morrissey

 Morgen and John at Verum Serum dug up this nugget, and not from 15 years ago when the Heritage Foundation had its brief and ill-advised fling with individual health-insurance mandates at the federal level. This comes from a May 2009 conference call hosted by Newt Gingrich on the subject of health-care reform as ObamaCare had just begun its tortured path through Congress. In this clip, Gingrich specifically calls for individual “must carry” mandates, and even notes that the insurance companies agreed that such a law would make “must issue” a better deal for them:

Read more: http://hotair.com/archives/2012/01/30/gingrich-in-2009-we-need-a-must-carry-law-on-health-insurance/

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