Potential Presidential Candidate Newt Gingrich Takes on Health Care Reform
According to Newt Gingrich, a likely presidential candidate, his competition is afraid to take the impending health care crisis on directly. Quoted in Crain's Cleveland Business, Mr. Gingrich stated before a group of health care executives at a forum sponsored by Kaiser Permanente, “It’s not a high-profit area for politicians. It’s too complicated.” Politicians, he said, are concerned that by voicing their views, they will alienate everyone, including individual voters, doctors, insurance companies and hospitals. While the article doesn't provide a lot of details about Gingrich's plan to reform the system, it does say that Gingrich recommended that the system be "changed to resemble the airline and automotive industries, where pricing, quality and accessibility become the greater factors, and negotiated contracts between insurers and health care providers do not determine how a patient is treated. "
