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    Gingrich:New, improved.More nimble (Ten years to flip on mandate, less than a week on Ryan)

    By jollyroger on Thu, 01/19/2012 - 9:14pm |

    Newt Gingrich, like Tide and Coke is new and  improved.

    We learn, inter alia, from this evening's debate that he has raised his performance as a health care policy analyst.

    Viz:

    When jacked up by Santorum over his decade of support for an individual mandate to buy insurance, Newt credited (and tacitly solicited credit for) the onset of new wisdom.

    Those who remember his (originally correct) disdain for the Ryan Medicare Voucher plan will recall that it only took a few days for him to flop, and declare his prior statements off limits for quotation as well. 

    Gingrich-Improved, more nimble.

    Comments

    Now if he can only nimbly flop against a mandate on open marriages.


    by Elusive Trope on Thu, 01/19/2012 - 11:22pm

    Some things are sacred...

     


    by jollyroger on Thu, 01/19/2012 - 11:27pm

    Newt's discomfiture, and Mitt's, are emblematic of how deforming to policy our "market obsession" is.  Excellence in health care is not achievable via  market driven systems. 

    As soon as you decide not to let the poor (uninsured) die like dogs outside the ER door, you plant your feet on a path that leads inexorably to single payer/provider where the risk is openly socialized or private carriers with risk covertly "socialized"  by a captive clientele.


    by jollyroger on Thu, 01/19/2012 - 11:33pm

    Gotta say, the debate was a win-win for Obama.  I think their blather on HealthCare, Immigration, the 99%, et al. only served to showcase their lack of humanity.  

    And love the TPM header about all the 'Mittstakes' of Romney - his smugness about not publishing his taxes and his faux business acumen, as well as his declaring Mass. healthcare as RomneyCare, pretty much created an immediate downward slide for him in SC polls.

    (Really wish someone would do post on all the businesses owned and operated by Mormon Church of which there's at least one insurance company.)

    Newt will implode and Santorum (aka Mr. Sanctimonious) is just a wink and nod in this race.

    Amazing, with all their self avowed religious fervor, there isn't a microchip of concern/empathy for others between them.

     

     


    by Aunt Sam on Fri, 01/20/2012 - 1:29am

    Newt Tide!

    I call that improvement.

    Works best whilst sea water sloshes. ha


    by Richard Day on Fri, 01/20/2012 - 1:51am