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On the recordDecember 26, 2011
In retrospect, we were wrong, because what happens, once you go to a mandate, you have turned so much power over the government that the politicians rather than the doctors end up defining health care. And so, it was a mistake.
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Newt Gingrich
Republican · Georgia

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Gingrich reflects on his previous support for health care mandates, calling it a mistake.

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