claim: "gingrich supported individual health insurance mandates."
author: red, white and blue fund
evidence_1: jan 30, 2012 ... this clip really should dispel once and for all any questions over gingrich's support for a national health-insurance mandate. somewhat strangely he's never really denied supporting the mandate, and in fact as late as may of last year reiterated essentially the same position on meet the press.
evidence_2: feb 7, 2012 ... but as romney said in a debate in las vegas last october, “we got the idea of an individual mandate…from [newt gingrich], and [newt] got it from the heritage ..... former speaker newt gingrich repeatedly insists that most conservatives once supported an individual mandate for health insurance. i beg to ...
evidence_3: jun 28, 2012 ... liberal commentators pointed out that sen. orrin hatch co-sponsored a 1993 health care bill that had an individual mandate. politifact rated that true. one republican supporter who changed his position was former speaker of the house newt gingrich. during the republican primary, candidate michele ...
evidence_4: dec 12, 2011 ... fact checker biography | gop candidate newt gingrich once proposed individual health-care mandates, but now he opposes them. ... in saturday's abc-yahoo debate, gingrich acknowledged he had originally supported the mandate as a way to fight against hillary clinton's health-care efforts:.
evidence_5: feb 14, 2012 ... mitt romney is often challenged by republican rivals about the health care law he signed as the governor of massachusetts, which also contains an individual mandate. mr. gingrich is often asked about his years of support for the idea. and mr. obama — who opposed the individual mandate four years ago ...