http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnLa1BvtaxM
That’s one of the few things Newt has not explained well. The mandates that the Heritage Foundation and Newt and other conservatives wanted in the 90s was a mandate for financial responsibility - which could be achieved by a bond or statement or by buying health insurance including high deductible health plans (we used to call major medical.) It is based on the principle of self responsibility, a conservative principle.
That’s radically different from what Obama wants us to buy, where we all have to buy coverage with abortion and transgender coverage and where we can’t buy high deductible or HSA policies. This is based on the principle of government bureaucrat control, a liberal principle.
Now you may not like either, and that is fine, but they are not the same.
Not sure why Newt has not “splained” this as well as he could.
Nor do I. Government mandated healthcare a la HillaryCare (which Newt blocked) and ObamaCare (which Newt is sworn to repeal) is socialist/fascism. I’m with Reagan all the way.
And so is Reaganite Newt Gingrich:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtkSFGkjaXU&feature=related