It's really more of an historical fact than a political talking point, as per Forbes, contemporaneously: ROMNEY: Actually, Newt, we got the idea of an indivi

It's really more of an historical fact than a political talking point, as per Forbes, contemporaneously: ROMNEY: Actually, Newt, we got the idea of an individual mandate from you. GINGRICH: That's not true. You got it from the Heritage Foundation. ROMNEY: Yes, we got it from you, and you got it from the Heritage Foundation and from you. https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2011/10/20/how-a-conservative-think-tank-invented-the-individual-mandate/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2011/10/20/how-a-... The Heritage report (1989), now disowned, antedates both the Dutch reforms and the Clinton Administration. Obama namechecked Heritage at the time. Seriously, we lived through this. ObamaCare came from the Heritage Foundation.