Newt Gingrich: “Let me start, I guess, with what I find to be the most puzzling part of the whole experience. You and I in a couple of…”

“Let me start, I guess, with what I find to be the most puzzling part of the whole experience. You and I in a couple of weeks will be going to Russia on a second trip to try to say to the Russians less bureaucracy, less centralization, less Government control, more marketplaces, more incentive, more entrepreneurship. In that context, beyond the debating points, does it not worry you to be setting up a national health board--I do not have the exact number at my fingertips--with something like 17 new mandates in this bill? I could cite them if you doubt it. Does it not worry you that the design--and I sympathize with the goals and I know it is hard to come in as a brand-new Administration with all the paperwork and confusion to try to actually write a bill like this. But doesn't it worry you that the Clinton bill is in fact everything we are telling Boris Yeltsin to quit doing?”