I knew this was a good thing from what Newt stated way back in the Wall Street Journal, "Newt Gingrich: Conservatives Should Vote 'Yes' on Medicare"...
"Every conservative member of Congress should vote for this Medicare bill. It is the most important reorganization of our nation's health-care system since the original Medicare Bill of 1965 and the largest and most positive change in direction for the health system in 60 years for people over 65."
and this...
"If you are a fiscal conservative who cares about balancing the federal budget, there may be no more important vote in your career than one in support of this bill. Since health expenditures comprise almost 14% of the U.S. GDP, a shifting away from the failed bureaucratic third-party payer model and back to a market-mediated binary payer model, where the customer controls his own first health dollars, is the single most significant reform that can be made in saving the country from skyrocketing health costs and steadily increasing calls for taxpayers to finance more and more of the health-care system through higher taxes."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1025610/posts
Good find, Tamsey. In all honesty, I had not seen Newt's earlier comments on the Medicare bill.