In another key moment from his interview with Greta Van Susteren Tuesday night, Newt Gingrich said that his 1993 statements in support of the individual health insurance mandate had to be placed in context of the opposition to Hillary Clinton’s push for universal health care at the time, when the mandate was being talked about in order to stop government-run health care. And he decried the “political amnesia” that led people to focus on those comments, and forget about his more recent activism against the mandate.
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