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It in new hampshire. now, the approach next door was a state plan to address state problems in ways that were unique to massachusetts. now, our experiment was not perfect. reporter: for former house speaker newt gingrich the challenge isn t policy, but personal. he has been married three times. he has admitted to having affairs, and that is a tough sell for the values voters who naturally gr lly gravitate to t social conservative position, and he is asking for forgiveness and putting rationale on the christian networks. well, there is no question that at times in my life driven by how passionately i felt about the country that i worked far too hard and that things happened in my life that were not appropriate. reporter: that got the late night comics buzzing. here is late night s jay leno. did you hear the explanation that he so passionate and so passionate about america that he ....
Broad name recognition and he is getting praise from the man in the oval office. i agree with mitt romney, who recently said he is proud of what he accomplished on health care in massachusetts. reporter: what these that about? health care reform could well be romney s achilles heel. as massachusetts governor, he signed a health care reform law that included a mandate. and it is a lot like the obama health care plan, which is wildly unpopular among republican voters. here s a governor explaining it in new hampshire. now our approach next door was a state plan to address state problems in ways that were unique to massachusetts. now, our experiment wasn t perfect. reporter: for former house speaker newt gingrich, the challenge isn t policy, it s personal. he has been married three times. he has admitted to having affairs that s a tough sell for the values voters who naturally ....
reporter: what s that about? health care reform could be romney s achilles heel. he signed a law that included a mandate. it s a lot like the obama health care plan which is wildly unpopular among voters. our approach next door was a state plan to address state problems in a way ways that were unique to massachusetts. the experiment wasn t perfect. reporter: for former house speaker newt gingrich, the challenge is personal. he has been married three times and admitted to having affairs. that s a tough sell for value voters. he s asking forgiveness and offering a rationale. first of all, there is no question that at times in my ....
Accomplishment. we led the nation, fix a broken insurance market and it is something he should be proud of not running away from. listen to what he said about the massachusetts reform. our approach next door was a state plan to address state problems in ways that were unique to massachusetts. now, the democrats obviously did not look at it that way. they looked at it as you say as a model for federal legislation. who was right? is romney right to say no one should have looked at massachusetts and thought there was anything in it that they could use in any other of the 49 states, or were the democrats in washington right to look at it and say look, this is the working model of what we should be trying to achieve? he s wrong in the means. basically the fundamental structure of what he designed, we designed in massachusetts which was to reform insurance markets, to have individual ....
Insurance market and it is something he should be proud of not running away from. listen to what he said about the massachusetts reform. our approach next door was a state plan to address state problems in ways that were unique to massachusetts. now, the democrats obviously did not look at it that way. they looked at it as you say as a model for federal legislation. who was right? is romney right to say no one should have looked at massachusetts and thought there was anything in it that they could use in any other of the 49 states, or were the democrats in washington right to look at it and say look, this is the working model of what we should be trying to achieve? he s wrong in the means. basically the fundamental structure of what he designed, we designed in massachusetts which was to reform insurance markets, to have individual mandate, and to make health insurance affordable, that s a structure that can work anywhere. there is a unique piece in massachusetts which is since ....