ATLANTA (AP) — An official presidential candidate for less than a week, Newt Gingrich already finds himself in hot water with conservatives for suggesting he supports health care mandates while at the same time deriding a Republican budget proposal that would replace Medicare with vouchers.
The former House speaker has moved quickly to backtrack, arguing he remains "committed to the complete repeal of Obamacare" and supports state lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's signature health care law.
But even as Gingrich distances himself from the law he is not backing away from one of its central tenets: that all Americans have a responsibility to share in the cost of health care.
Gingrich's remarks have created an uproar in conservative circles, where Obama's health law is anathema. And they have left the wonky Gingrich scrambling to explain himself on a complicated issue that had been expected to play a key role in his campaign for the White House.
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