Newt: Opposed to Health Mandate

Politico the former House Speaker was careful to make clear that he was “completely opposed to the Obamacare mandate on individuals.” “I am for the repeal for Obamacare, and I am against any effort to impose a federal mandate on anyone because it is fundamentally wrong and I believe unconstitutional,” he said in the short statement on YouTube, released in the wake of publicity surrounding his remarks Sunday on Meet the Press Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/55051.html#ixzz1MXzXuD9L" target="_blank">reports:

One day after Newt Gingrich acknowledged his past support for requiring people to buy health insurance, the former House Speaker was careful to make clear that he was “completely opposed to the Obamacare mandate on individuals.”

“I am for the repeal for Obamacare, and I am against any effort to impose a federal mandate on anyone because it is fundamentally wrong and I believe unconstitutional,” he said in the short statement on YouTube, released in the wake of publicity surrounding his remarks Sunday on Meet the Press.

During the Sunday interview on “Meet The Press,” Gingrich was asked if he agreed with Mitt Romney on the individual mandate.

“Well, I agree that all of us have a responsibility to pay — help pay for health care,” Gingrich responded. “And, I think that there are ways to do it that make most libertarians relatively happy. I’ve said consistently we ought to have some requirement that you either have health insurance or you post a bond.”

Host David Gregory pressed, “But that is the individual mandate, is it not?”

“It’s a variation on it,” Gingrich said.