Sponsored Content
« Patterico Locked Out of GMail for Comments in Support of Ann Althouse | Main | Sunday Afternoon Stupid, "Why Cities Are Superior" »
May 15, 2011

Newt: Ryan's Plan Is Too "Radical" And We Need Some Sort Of Health Care Mandate

Shorter Newt: Yeah, I'm as much of a loose cannon as you remember.

On Ryan and Medicare.

The former House speaker and candidate for the GOP presidential nomination called it "radical change" and "too big a jump." Instead, he pushed for creating a system that allows people to pick other options than government-run coverage, so that they "voluntarily migrate to better outcomes, better solutions, better options."

And what are his better options? He'll let you know after we have a "national conversation". I'm not sure if that involves a listening tour or not.

So if you're up for kicking the Medicare down the road (until it comes crashing to a halt no later than 2024, if it lasts that long), Newt's your guy.

Either way, I'm sure the Democrats appreciate the campaign ad, "The GOP Medicare Plan Is Too Extreme For Newt Gingrich".

As for insurance mandates, Newt seems to think Mitt gave up too soon.

“I believe all of us — and this is going to be a big debate — I believe all of us have a responsibility to help pay for health care,” he said, insisting there is “a way to do it that make most libertarians relatively happy.”

“It’s a system that allows people to have a range of choices that are designed buy the economy,” he said. “I don’t think having a free rider system in [health care] is any more appropriate than having a free rider system in any other part of the economy.”

Nice theory but as we've seen, it's not exactly the biggest problem we face in health care. You still have to subsidize the poor and it does nothing to control costs. But yeah, let's focus on that.

So too summarize, Newt is basically running to the left of Paul Ryan on entitlement reform and Mitt Romney on healthcare.


digg this
posted by DrewM. at 01:04 PM

| Access Comments




Recent Comments
Christopher R Taylor [/i][/i][/s][/s][/b][/b][/u][/u]: "Is that elephant waterfall from a ride? ..."

Mark1971: "It's Disney Jungle Cruise ..."

AlaBAMA: "Doh! Lamont. Poor Lamont. ..."

Aetius451AD Work Laptop: "31 oh wow that's obviously fake I didn't watch ..."

FeatherBlade: "I remember what it was like to have a neck that fl ..."

AlaBAMA: "That kid laughing made me belly laugh!! Did you ..."

Aetius451AD Work Laptop: "23 Does Ace know that elephant is fake or do we ha ..."

ace: "i'll repalce the Ana Navarro video ..."

BlackOrchid: "while Trump was in office, towards the end? I was ..."

Bertram Cabot, Jr.: " [i]Then why are they trying everything they can ..."

ace: "oh wow that's obviously fake I didn't watch it ..."

Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway: "I think the Elephant thing is fake. An elephant co ..."

Recent Entries
Search


Polls! Polls! Polls!
Frequently Asked Questions
The (Almost) Complete Paul Anka Integrity Kick
Top Top Tens
Greatest Hitjobs

The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon
A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates
Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)
Powered by
Movable Type 2.64