Changing Lanes: Who Is Newt Today?

Who Is Newt Today?

Government-mandated healthcare OK

According to Newt:

"All of us have a responsibility to help pay for health care."

(Wall Street Journal)

"I agree that all of us have a responsibility to pay ? help pay for health care."

MSNBC's David Gregory: But that is the individual mandate, is it not?

"It's a variation on it."

(National Review)

"In 2008, according to an AP report, Gingrich suggested 'insurance mandates for people who earn more than $75,000 a year.' Two years later, he was telling Sean Hannity at Fox News that health insurance mandates were unconstitutional."

(CS Monitor)