70 Year Magazine Archive

The Welfarization of Health Care

by Dick Armey and Newt Gingrich

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confusion over coverage.” That’s right—government must decide for the befuddled masses. What ultimately will bring about the demise of the Clinton health-care plan is the utter arrogance that permeates the thing.

A close reading of the bill suggests it has as much to do with enacting unpopular liberal social policies through the back door as it does with providing health care to all Americans. The New Testament sets forth how people should live in about 180,000 words. The health-care bill does it in 260,000. It is a breathtaking display of social engineering, the scope of which has not been seen since the Great Society in the Sixties.

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Newt Gingrich

About the Author

Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich was the Republican speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. He is the host of the Newt’s World podcast, and his latest book is Trump’s America: The Truth About America’s Comeback.

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