"While complete repeal and replacement may have made sense in 2010 ‑‑when the GOP first took back control of the Congress and the ACA was not yet implemented‑‑ too much time has passed and too much of our nation's health care infrastructure has been altered to get all the toothpaste back into the tube," Gingrey wrote in an article posted on the website of the District Policy Group, a Washington lobbying firm where he now works.

A 12-year veteran of Congress, Gingrey made an unsuccessful run for U.S. Senate in 2014, promising to repeal Obamacare or go home.