Newt Gingrich

The Clinton plan and Mrs. Clinton's testimony guaranteed a lower rate of increase in budget than any Western country has ever gotten, a lower rate than Canada, a lower rate than Germany. And the only way, the only way you can get to that…

This allows the government of a single State, Louisiana, Arkansas, Maryland, Georgia, a single State, to decide to control all the health care in the State.

We certainly do. We move in exactly the direction of a fair market, but let me ask you a question about the plan you're supposedly defending tonight. If you look at this plan, and particularly pages 25 and 109, 110 and 674, it spells out…

I'll give you an answer. There are a lot of ideas that are market oriented. The medical savings account, for example, lowers the cost by some 30 percent when tried by Forbes magazine and Golden Insurance Co. The Steel Case Co. in Michigan…

I think we should keep the Medicare program, and I think we should increase the opportunities for Americans under Medicare to get even better care with even a broader range of choice with less red tape and less bureaucracy, which is why I…

I said the senior citizens of America, over 50 State governments, 50 State legislatures, particularly given, frankly, what we know about corruption in some States, why should we turn people over to those State governments?

I would love to see the Clinton plan change so dramatically that we are talking about private health insurance and we are giving up the States that have single-payer and giving up the Government's mandatory allowances. But if you would be…

But I am so shaken when I see, as I did in the morning paper, your assertion that you would have to pass the plan with only Democratic votes. I am so disheartened when I see your side not willing to work with us on a bipartisan basis, that…

I think in the average State which has compulsory auto insurance, 40 percent of the people do not in fact have auto insurance. I think that is a fact. I think in the District of Columbia, which theoretically has compulsory auto insurance…

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…

What I'm saying to you is, if you read starting on page 109, a single State can design a system totally different than the State next to it and could say that you have much fewer choices as a senior citizen.

At the option of the State the system may provide for the enrollment of Medicare individuals residing in the State.

I was on a college campus in Georgia. A women got up, a student, who was a native American, and she said she had to speak out, that if every American understood how bad Government health care is on the Indian reservations, they would not…

If you look at page 109 of the bill you are supposedly defending, the Clinton plan, you will see a provision that allows a State government to take over all health care in a State. If you turn to page 110, you will see that it says at the…

We now know that I am not the leading expert on health care on this panel. I feel the burden is lowered.

I am delighted to have a chance to speak on behalf of the Kyl substitute, because I think that the gentleman from Arizona [Mr. Kyl] is making a point here that is central to what kind of America we want to be. It is an objective fact that…

let me say first that I appreciate very much this chance to be here, and I enjoyed immensely the opening by the Democratic majority leader, which was wonderful, about goals, and with which we agree. We all go home and we all have problems…

Let me just say to my good friend, first of all, that what you just said about the Republican plan is not true, unless the only things that every count in life are mandated and required by a Federal bureaucracy. Our plan allows women and…

Let me say that I am delighted that finally we can now get to what I believe the Democratic side agreed to defend, which is the bill introduced by Mr. Gephardt for himself and a host of others in the title H.R. 3600 which I think was the…

Let me say to my good friend, first of all, there are several Republican plans that I have supported, and they have evolved over the last 2 years. They would guarantee that you would have portability, and they do guarantee that you would…

Republicans are certainly not for the Federal Government taking away your health control, giving it to a local Governor and State legislature to plan it the way they want to and then saying, ``You have no choice, you must do what that…

I am going to talk this morning about the politics of self-destruction and the politics of self-deception. I am citing, as my text, two articles in this morning's Washington Post, because today's Washington Post has two stories that will…

I am very, very grateful to all allowed to serve with John Kasich and the team he has put together on the Committee on the Budget, because these Members, as the Washington Post, hardly a Republican bastion, has said, they have produced a…

I am just curious. Since apparently the Congressional Budget Office could never actually get this work out in terms of scoring everything satisfactorily, and since we are now 3 weeks ahead of the normal budget schedule, is there a reason…

I rise today to urge the Democratic leadership here in the House to abandon the health care process that I believe has started this morning in the subcommittee of the gentleman from California. Let me report to my colleagues that my…