Health Care Mandate

I had intended to post the URL for Newt Gingriche's website, Center For Health Care Transformation. On that site he proposed that everyone making over $50,000 a year be required to purchase health insurance or put up a personal bond. Unfortunately, that site has been removed.

You talking about this:
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/11/newt-gingrichs-health-care-group-still-backs-mandate.php
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Newt Gingrich may want to update the website on his consulting firm.

The Gingrich Group’s “Center For Health Transformation” has a section detailing their prescription for comprehensive health care reform. One crucial plank? A mandate requiring everyone making $50,000 or more to obtain health insurance or post a bond.
According to Mother Jones, which first flagged the site, the post was put up no later than 2008, back when the issue was far less controversial among Republicans.

Gingrich currently says he opposes mandates, but his position has evolved significantly over the years. In the 1990s he supported a health care plan that included an individual mandate as an alternative to President Clinton’s proposed requirement that employers provide insurance. Last Spring he was forced to again clarify his position after he suggested on Meet The Press that America adopt, well, the plan his own consulting firm had come up with, saying that he had long supporter a requirement that “you either have health insurance or you post a bond or in some way you indicate you’re going to be held accountable.” Asked whether it was a mandate, he said it was a “variation on it.”.................................