[katiedidit1]

Love Newt's Healthcare Solutions. With these Patient Power reforms, healthcare can be transformed from an anchor on our economy to an engine. From a broken, fragmented system to a coordinated, innovative system that delivers more choices at lower cost for all Americans. This comprehensive approach—cost, quality, competition, and coverage—can solve the problem of the uninsured with no individual mandate and no employer mandate. Everyone would be able to obtain essential health care and coverage when needed. For those who are too poor to buy health insurance, states will have more flexibility to provide them with the assistance they need to buy it. For those who nevertheless choose not to purchase coverage and then become too sick to do so, high risk pools will provide access to coverage. Once you have health insurance, you are assured you can keep it. By contrast, even Obamacare for all its trillions in taxes, spending, new entitlements, and new bureaucracy still does not achieve universal coverage http://www.newt.org/solutions/healthcare

[parksstp]

Cost, Quality, Competition, Coverage. Hmm. Where have I heard this before? Oh yeah, NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND!!! LOL!

This program is flawed from the get-go because like Obamacare and Romneycare, requires some type of centralized-government management. And anything government-managed that states it can produces upgrades in cost and quality is a joke. Government-management is synonymous with inefficiency.

Healthcare Management is not an inherent function of the Government. And because any Government Program usually starts out “inefficient”, the way most politicians try to fix that is by adding on additional amendments and provisions. Remember when you were griping about 9-9-9 becoming 12-12-12 or 20-20-20? Just like the liberals griped about No Child Left Behind, they would be griping about the inefficiencies of a Government-Run Healthcare System. Once ANY system was enacted, the desire to tack on would be there, ultimately resulting in an indivudal mandate or some other greater kind of government control.

The Federal Government needs to stay out of the business of Healthcare Management and let the private sector do it’s job.

[garjog]

Newts plan is common sense reforms. We know that costs are high because insurance creates inflation. Let the Market control costs by returning payment to individuals. State governments can help the poor with block grants.

These are too good of ideas to let slide.

Newt really is going to solve so many issues that the Libs.

[fightinJAG]

I don't see any solutions in all that verbiage. Only a statement of the problem and, at the end, a pipedream and a dangerous one, as well.

WAIT.

DID NEWT SAY "UNIVERSAL COVERAGE"?

Why, yes, he did:

By contrast, even Obamacare for all its trillions in taxes, spending, new entitlements, and new bureaucracy still does not achieve universal coverage. http://www.newt.org/solutions/healthcare

[fightinJAG]

So how does Newt propose to get universal coverage with no individual mandate and no employer mandate?

[NautiNurse]

Reality check: In locations where there is more competition (ie higher doctor:patient ratio, higher hospital beds:population ratio), consumer costs for medical care are *much* higher.

Where does Mr. Gingrich address medical liability reform?

[GeronL]

I do not want a government coordinated healthcare system