In search of Gingrich’s vision for Medicare

Austin Frakt

December 1, 2011

Now that Newt Gingrich is the GOP front runner, I’d really like to know his precise, detailed vision for Medicare. On Medicare, his website reads only,

Create more choices in Medicare by giving seniors the option to choose, on a voluntary basis, a more personal system in the private sector with greater options for better care. This would create price competition to lower costs.

That could mean so many things that it is close to meaningless. Anyone aware of more detail than that?

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Austin Frakt

Austin Frakt, PhD, is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist and tweets at @afrakt. His day job is Director of the Partnered Evidence-based Policy Resource Center at the Boston VA Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He is also a Professor with the Department of Health Law, Policy and Management at the Boston University’s School of Public Health, a Principal Research Scientist with the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Health Services Research.

In search of Gingrich’s vision for Medicare

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In search of Gingrich’s vision for Medicare

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