Health Care Debate is Over

Even though Newt Gingrich appears to be the current front runner for the GOP nod, it really wouldn't matter in terms of the health care debate if it's Romney or Gingrich.

Here's what's interesting about this debate the MSM isn't reporting.  Both Gingrich and Romney supported the individual mandate right up until Barack Obama put it in his health care reform bill in 2009.  Romney even went so far as to enact his very own individual mandate when he was Governor of Massachusetts.  He also called the mandate "the American" way to overhaul health care.

Gingrich called the mandate essential for a rational system.  He even went so far as to call for a "transfer of finances" (redistribution of wealth) to ensure the poorest among us get health care coverage.  Could you imagine if Barack Obama had said we need to transfer people's finances to make sure poor people are covered the backlash and name calling the GOP would resort to. But when they do it, it's only because they are Super Patriots.

So we have the top two GOP candidates for their party's nomination madly in love with the individual mandate.  The health care debate is officially over.  Whatever they say now is a lie. The mandate was great policy, they praised it, they enacted it, they defended it, they did everything imaginable to make it theirs.  There's no rewriting history on this.  The health care debate is finished.