Newt Gingrich actually said...

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

Context

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

12/26/2011

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