Newt Gingrich actually said...

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.

Context

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

12/26/2011

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