To Renew America: on Health Care


Decentralizing power will reduce health costs

We stand on the edge of three revolutions in health care. Their combined effect will lower costs, increase quality, and extend opportunities to virtually all Americans. These three revolutions are:
  1. A restricting of the insurance system to increase flexibility and create new incentives for lower cost care.
  2. A shift in responsibility and information away from professional guilds and public bureaucracies and toward the individual consumer-citizen.
  3. An entrepreneurial and scientific revolution that will lower health costs for more and more patients.
Today's insurance industry and health care delivery system are large centers of power that charge high costs to individuals without leaving them much alternative. Our job should be to allow innovation and the free market to bring costs down while increasing choice and quality. Just as we tell Yeltsin and the Russians to dismantle their centralized command bureaucracies, so we should tell ourselves the same thing.
Source: Renew America, by Newt Gingrich, p.167-168 Jul 2, 1996

  • The above quotations are from To Renew America, by Newt Gingrich.
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