Newt Gingrich: Health Care Reform Is 'Centralized Health Dictatorship' (VIDEO)

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich recently lobbied for Republicans to treat the repeal of health care as a serious exercise instead of a futile one, saying that it was their duty to combat the "centralized health dictatorship" set into motion by "ObamaCare."

"The Center for Health Transformation is about to enter a report that the Secretary of Health and Human Services has 1,961 grants of power in the ObamaCare bill," Gingrich said in an interview with Human Events. "I mean, you talk about a centralized health dictatorship."

Responding to claims that the health care repeal effort would sink in the Senate, where the GOP is still in the minority, Gingrich claimed that Republicans simply needed to press Democrat senators facing reelection in 2012.

"[T]arget the 23 Democrats up for re-election and create petition drives in all 23 states [to] build pressure on the Senate to follow the House's lead," Gingrich advised.

The House is expected to vote on the Republican health care repeal bill Wednesday, even as their recent claims about the original package's "job-killing" initiatives and overall support for the repeal effort are called into question.

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[bobo5]

06:25 PM on 01/23/2011

Newt Gingrich is "an STD".

[Steelsil]

01:37 AM on 01/22/2011

As Newt said, crawling out from under a rock, you don't want to be like the citizens of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, and what not, your pride broken, fearful to speak your mind, you freedom to go broke or die of treatable disease wrong, do you?  Think of the poor miserable Norwegians, freed from Germany's thrall, only to crushed under the burden of never having the opportunity do die, bankrupt, deprived of shelter, clothing, and food, never to lie in the gutter, starving, do you?  Of course you don't!  Your corporate masters would never do that to you!  You're Americans, damn it!  Die like dogs, I mean, die like men, cherishing your freedom to look upon the limousines that splash you as you breathe your last!  Freedom!

[duhtruth]

10:05 AM on 01/20/2011

I say give Gingrich the health care available to the bottom of the economic scale and then let him fight for centralized health care.

[ranchero42]

03:04 AM on 01/21/2011

Pretty sure if Newt hates it - this could be just about the best thing since sliced bread. On the other hand - that's what he WANTS me to think, so...

[Steelsil]

01:39 AM on 01/22/2011

Newt kicked his last wife into the gutter as she lay dying of cancer.  Why wouldn't he do that to us?  Thanks, Newt!

[IreneNH]

09:16 AM on 01/20/2011

I wonder how the holier-than-thou Tea Partiers feel about Newt's personal past. He divorced his first wife while she was being treated for cancer and married the woman he was having an affair with. Then he divorced her and married the woman he was having an affair with.

He is generally blamed for bringing the Republicans major losses in 1998.

[duhtruth]

10:04 AM on 01/20/2011

And then the Catholic Church somehow welcomed him in.

[IreneNH]

10:14 AM on 01/20/2011

I was raised a Catholic. I now consider myself to be "spiritual" rather than religious. The Catholic Church particularly in recent years has driven people away in droves due to its double standards and its failure to address, and/or hide, pedophile priests.

[medic628]

08:54 AM on 01/20/2011

Why do people care about what this con man has to say. Everything he does and say is for his benefit alone.

[G E H]

08:45 AM on 01/20/2011

Newt has a very short memory:

""The idea of an individual mandate as an alternative to single-payer was a Republican idea," explained health economist Mark Pauly of Penn's Wharton School. In 1991, Pauly published an article that outlined how a coverage mandate could be joined with tax credits - two principles that are now included in Obama's law. Pauly's theories were well-received by the administration of George H.W. Bush.

"It could have been the basis for a bipartisan compromise, but it wasn't," lamented Pauly. "Because the Democrats were in favor, the Republicans more or less had to be against it."

Full article: http://www.insurancerate.com/republicans-and-health-care-reform.php

[stdeclan]

08:38 AM on 01/20/2011

This disingenuous little toad will soon be front runner for the Republican nomination for president in 2012.
It's not too early to start campaigning against him and his lies.

[Steelsil]

01:41 AM on 01/22/2011

Well, Newts and toads are both amphibians.....

[studmoose]

08:18 AM on 01/20/2011

Remember the Clinton Impeachment?

Hey Newt, How many affairs did you have while you were trying to persecute Clinton?

[hetrose]

08:04 AM on 01/20/2011

And it is so much worse than the De-centralized Insurance Company Dictatorship that we currrenlty have. Right, Newt?

[Steve Albin]

07:36 AM on 01/20/2011

How much are my health care premiums going to be under Obama Care. Any one have an ideal?

[studmoose]

08:19 AM on 01/20/2011

What are you worried?

You're probably either collecting SSDI, SS & Medicare, Medicaid or some other socialist program.

[duxguts]

06:05 AM on 01/20/2011

You have to ask yourself why any American would not want cheap quality health care for all Americans. But I think we already know the answer to that don't we.

[1differentdrummer]

05:57 AM on 01/20/2011

You know, I think the man is actually very intelligent, but how come all we see is crafty and sly? Where is that brilliant mind when it comes to positive thinking and actions?

[bill987654]

08:27 AM on 01/20/2011

...Charles Manson was a very intelligent person....

[shangrolah]

02:13 AM on 01/20/2011

Why is it a bad idea to repeal health reform?

Just examine one issue that nobody paid attention to: For the first time, people in hospice can simultaneo­­­usly get drugs and therapy that might save their lives while in hospice. Before they had to make the awful choice as to whether they wanted to have hospice care or to be able to receive care that would save their lives.

From Kaiser Health News:

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2010/May/10/Hospice.aspx

"This dilemma — that you must give up aggressive treatment to get end-of-lif­­­e counseling and care — is a major reason many people resist entering hospice, sometimes until just days before they die.

But the new health law could lead to a major change in Medicare policy that allows patients to get treatment and hospice care simultaneo­­­usly."

What else? There is also the issue of whether companies should be able to throw off patients when they become ill. Repealing health care reform would end that too.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/demons-and-demonization/

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/reuters-and-milwaukee-journal-sentinel-receive-2010-barlett--steele-awards-104329693.html

[Steelsil]

01:44 AM on 01/22/2011

They repealed Republican death panels?  Well, the Republicans will bring them back, or bring government to a standstill.  Bu-bye, granny.

[yetiwatcher]

02:11 AM on 01/20/2011

there's no public option, there wasn't even medicare eligibility expansion
there was a directive from the gov't to the people to by from private insurers - where the costs go up in double digit percentage increases every year

Gingrich's statements are not grounded in reality, par for the course

[GerryOregon]

01:34 AM on 01/20/2011

Gingrich is such a demonic little freak. He never stops playing games with rhetoric