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To: Neeka who wrote (468623)	1/30/2012 8:43:12 PM
From: Brian Sullivan	8 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793648

Neeka, Here is your darling Newt, backing Obama's individual mandate for ObamaCare in 2009: There are actually his words: The real foundation, the most important part of this, is individual rights, responsibilities, and expectations of behavior. … We believe that there should be must-carry, that everybody should have health insurance, or if you’re 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 showing up in the emergency room with no means of payment. If you have must carry, then the insurance companies have told us that we can have must-issue, and you will therefore have a system in which you don’t have to worry about cherry-picking and maneuvering. … This is the kind of general model we will be advocating. At the time, Gingrich was speaking on behalf of one of his business ventures, The Center For Health Transformation, an organization that received significant amounts of money from the health care industry, including many large pharmaceutical companies. At the time, it wasn’t really shocking for Gingrich to say this because it was entirely consistent with what he’d been saying since the days of the long, hard debate over HillaryCare in 1994. You can listen to it for yourself here: outsidethebeltway.com I expect that you will immediately be switching over to Santorum after listening to this.