Romney blamed Newt for his Romneycare mandate

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http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2011/09/29/romney-individual-mandate-seen-as-conservative-idea/

Romney: ‘Individual mandate seen as conservative idea’

5:25 pm September 29, 2011, by Jay

Mitt Romney on the individual mandate, a core concept in both RomneyCare and ObamaCare:

“The idea for the health care plan was not mine alone. The Heritage Foundation, a great conservative think tank, helped on that. I’m told that Newt Gingrich was one of the very first people to come up with idea of the individual mandate — did that years and years ago. It was conceived — it was seen as a conservative idea to say, you know what, people have a responsibility to care for themselves if they can.”

All of which is true, of course. Every last word of it.