I assumed it was a think tank set up for the purpose of bringing together people with big ideas on, well, "transformation" of the health care industry. Sort of like a mini Heritage Foundation devoted to health care reform.
Turns out Newt's Center for Health Transformation is, first, a FOR-PROFIT organization (unlike true think tanks). Big health care insurance and pharmaceutical companies, for example, pay large membership fees (to Gingrich) and in return they get to, essentially, lobby Gingrich, as well as "marketing and research support."
I didn't know this until recently. AstraZeneca and Blue Shield, for example, pays as much as $200,000 in membership fees. HERE.
the Center for Health Transformation, an organization Gingrich founded:
Yep, we need to hear a lot more from Newt.