Category Archives: Gingrich BS

NEWT: HEALTH CARE SHOULD BE DELIVERED ‘WITHIN A FRAMEWORK SET BY GOVERNMENT’

More evidence that Newt Gingrich has been on the wrong side of every aspect of the health care debate. In this video, from a discussion with congressional staffers in 2003, he compares the government’s role in health care to that which it played in building the interstate highway system … sigh. [ht Breitbart]

VIDEO: RON PAUL’S DEADLY ANTI-GINGRICH AD

This hits Newt hard on his global warming ad with Nancy Pelosi, his lucrative health care lobbying, and his numerous flip-flops on a wide variety of issues. The irony, of course, is that Ron Paul has also been guilty of serial hypocrisy. I guess it takes one to know one, eh? [ht Spectacle Blog]

VIDEO: GINGRICH ENDORSES MANDATES

Yesterday, I wrote in the American Spectator that Newt Gingrich has been on the wrong side of too many crucial health care debates.  In this video, from a discussion in 2005, he endorses insurance mandates. He begins with a bit of his trademark stream-of-consciousness maundering about the need for 100% coverage if we want proper preventive care [...]

NEWT’S HEALTH PROBLEMS

In today’s American Spectator, I discuss Gingrich’s foot-in-mouth disease as it relates to health care. He has been on the wrong side of every important reform controversy. He has even praised the egregious Donald Berwick: Don Berwick at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement has worked for years to spread the word that the same systematic approach to quality [...]