The Market Can Fix the Healthcare Problem By Newt Gingrich

Is there anything in your life you think would be better if it were run by government bureaucrats? For most of us, the answer is a laughable "No."

Yet oddly, there is sympathy for turning over our most private, personal decisions, not to mention one sixth of our economy, to the same unresponsive, anti-entrepreneurial culture that gave us the response to Hurricane Katrina. Our two largest government-run health programs--Medicare and Medicaid--are on fiscal crash courses that make Social Security seem like a model of solvency. Steep benefit cuts or much higher taxes will be required to sustain them anywhere near their current form.......U.S.News