Four paradoxes of health care reform: Conservatives can take moral and political high ground
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On health care, conservatives' ideas on transparency and choice have support but too much emphasis on market fundamentalism and saving money will backfire.
Newt Gingrich was Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995-1999 and a candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. He is chairman of Gingrich 360.
We agree that conservatives should not shy away from discussing health care, but opinion research our two organizations conducted this summer suggests that a message too focused on market fundamentalism and saving money will backfire.
First, while Americans support specific free-market health care reform ideas, it will alienate voters if we talk about health care as if it should be a typical commercial market. This is because health care is life or death – the stakes are too high for people to accept normal market dynamics.