Re: Gingrich ’06 Memo: “Agree Entirely With Gov . Romney” on Health Care

I wonder if Jonathan Karl actually read Gingrich's memo.  

 

Gingrich's point, is that those who choose to avoid paying for their own health care, and opt for the free medicaid/free health care ticket;  a State such as Massachusetts (or any other State)  has a right to regulate such provisions.

 

I agree.  It is when the Federal Government starts getiting involved in such a boondoggle that every American should be concerned!    It is getting harder and harder to distinguish between Crackpots and Moonbats.   Hopefully, Crazy Uncle Ron's fifteen minutes of fame will end in a couple of months.

 

 

On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 8:54 AM, MJ <michaelj@america.net> wrote:

Gingrich '06 Memo: "Agree Entirely With Gov. Romney" on Health Care
By Jonathan Karl
Dec 27, 2011 7:41am

To conservatives, the biggest strike against Mitt Romney is the health care plan he put in place in Massachusetts, but Newt Gingrich lavished praise on Romney's plan after it was passed in 2006.

"We agree entirely with Governor Romney and Massachusetts legislators that our goal should be 100 percent insurance coverage for all Americans," Gingrich wrote in 2006.

And, Gingrich wrote, the key to achieving that goal was doing what Romney did in Massachusetts:  Requiring everybody who could afford it to buy health insurance.  In fact, Gingrich makes an impassioned case for the so-called individual mandate ­ which is also at the center of President Obama's health plan ­ on conservative grounds.

"We also believe strongly that personal responsibility is vital to creating a 21st Century Intelligent Health System," Gingrich wrote in the memo which was found on an old Gingrich website by BuzzFeed's Andrew Kaczynski.  "Individuals who can afford to purchase health insurance and simply choose not to place an unnecessary burden on a system that is on the verge of collapse; these free-riders undermine the entire health system by placing the onus of responsibility on taxpayers."

Read the memo.

Gingrich had some criticisms of the Massachusetts plan ­ including what he called the state's over-regulation of health insurers ­ but overall, he loved it.

Newt:  "Massachusetts leaders are to be commended for this bipartisan proposal to tackle the enormous challenge of finding real solutions for creating a sustainable health system."


http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/12/gingrich-06-memo-agree-entirely-with-gov-romney-on-health-care/

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