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Newt Gingrich: “Your plan essentially is one more big government, bureaucratic, high-cost system, which candidly could not have been…”

On the recordDecember 26, 2011
Your plan essentially is one more big government, bureaucratic, high-cost system, which candidly could not have been done by any other state because no other state had a Medicare program as lavish as yours, and no other state got as much money from the federal government under the Bush administration for this experiment.
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Newt Gingrich
Republican · Georgia

Editor's note · Context

Gingrich criticizes Mitt Romney's health care plan, describing it as a big government system.

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