Newt Gingrich...on understanding the healthcare system
[Live remarks from Newt Gingrich at an event at The Atlanta Press Club, sponsored by Presidential Financial and Presidential Healthcare Credit. February 24, 2010]
[Regarding the efforts toward healthcare reform and the proposed bills]..."We don’t know enough right now. And most of what we do know is wrong.
Because what’s happened is, you have a 1980 or 1970 bureaucratic model of centralized healthcare growing out of the Great Society in the 1960’s. All in a world which has changed rapidly. It would be like my rushing in here with a 1985 model car radio phone, and saying we have this great new device that we’re going to mandate for the whole country. And having all of you pull out your cell phones, and your Blackberrys and your iPhones, and saying ‘why would you want that?’ That’s where we are right now in terms of this whole debate.
They system is evolving faster than the politicians are able to understand it. The politicians want to do what they learned as kids, so Henry Waxman who’s been there 37 years is desperately trying to write the bill he believed in...in 1972. It’s just utterly irrational."
VERY COOL! And just another way Presidential is plugged in to the real pulse of the healthcare market! Impressive!
Posted by: MW | March 10, 2010 at 10:52 AM