Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich Talks on Embracing True Health Information ...

12.11.09

Started with a sobering note, “we lack to start talking about the reform we’re going to need after the reform fails,” Gingrich said. Yet, within moments, the attending reflecting leaders were motivated – and often humored – by Gingrich’s dry wit as he delivered solutions to mutate the current delivery system into a 21st Century Intelligent Health System.

“I think it’s very important to recollect that, whether you’re for the current bill or against the current bill, there is nothing going on in Congress that is going to fundamentally change the underlying system. What we’re doing now is fighting over financing and administration, but we’re not actually trying to think about the underlying core challenges of the American healthcare system. I about probably because it’s so complicated. But I think it’s partly because we don’t really have good models for thoughtful about really fundamental alternatives. If you said tomorrow morning, 'Let’s go to a single-payor system', you might or might not modulate access, and you might or might not change the immediate pattern of financing of the job, but you wouldn’t change the underlying behaviors.” Transforming and revolutionizing the widespread healthcare system, Gingrich says, into one that will create an economic boom for Americans and lead people to contemporary longer and better, while paying less for care, will require three major changes:

Source: Behavioral Health Central (blog)