Newt Gingrich...on comparing delivery of care

[Live remarks from Newt Gingrich at an event at The Atlanta Press Club, sponsored by Presidential Financial and Presidential Healthcare Credit.  February 24, 2010]

"If you look at the gap between the best care delivery in America and the worst care delivery in America, it’s breathtaking.  If you look at the difference in cost, it is stunning.  The best places are cheaper.  Consistently.  They focus more, they have fewer infections, they have fewer medical mistakes, they have fewer medication errors, they work harder at getting people healthy and out of the hospital, or not ever getting into the hospital.  

And so you really want to figure out [the migration].  You can’t get into it by some bureaucratic order.  This is a continuous process, because this year’s best is not going to be next year’s best.  And so there is a continuous evolutionary process underway, and I really think that health innovation may replace health reform as the battle cry of the next decade."