Newt Gingrich - Former Speaker Of The House Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Right. So are Republicans looking at maybe their last best
chance between now in the midterms to fix healthcare, to
get rid of Obamacare? Is that the right move to make?
Should they be doing it? Our next guest, I think
probably thinks that, yeah, they should be doing it. I
just wonder if he thinks that they will get around
to doing it. Do Gingridge, former Speaker of the House,

(00:22):
Welcome to our program sir. By the way, you can
follow Newt on substack in at Gingridge three sixty dot nets.
So are Republicans bold enough to take on healthcare?

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Well, there's certainly a number of them are. The President
has proposed some pretty serious reforms. I just noticed that
the House Republicans have three or four different roofs working
on healthcare. And then the key here is, you know,
it's just not working. In the Affordable Care Act turned

(00:55):
out not to be affordable. I have been very strongly
advocating transparency because I think until you can see the
cost and the quality and you can make a decision,
we're never going to get the system to work. The
insurance company bureaucracies and the government bureaucracies and the hospital

(01:18):
bureaucracies all conspire to raise costs, and so we can't
just talk about the cost of insurance unless you talk
about the cost of actual care. And we have been
unwilling to go straight at it the way we should be.
And I'm an optimist. I will tell you we will

(01:39):
probably we have a very good chance of passing transparency
this year. I think that could take something like twenty
percent out of the cost of health care just by
allowing people to have better options and to know what
they're doing. So we'll say, I mean, it's a very
hard thing, and it's very partisan, and every you know.

(02:02):
I mean, the Democrats took a position that you couldn't
reform and fix the system for legal immigrants, You couldn't
fix the system for adults who are able body who
refuse to work. You couldn't even fix the system for
going after crooks. And I'll just give you one one
fact that's amazing on the Obamas, on the COVID subsidies,

(02:27):
one half of them involved people who never applied for
a single thing from the insurance company. So the government
was setting insurance company all this money for people who
weren't using insurance. And it's billions and billions of dollars
and you know whether or not you can get Democrats

(02:47):
to decide that it's worth fixing it rather than just
yelling about it, I don't know, And that'll be a fact.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
As you know, we just went through a government shutdown
supposedly over healthcare, and we've faced potential another one at
the end of January if something doesn't happen. Can they
come up with some sort of at least principle in agreement,
agreement to some sort of idea here that what they're
going to do going down the road to prevent another
government shut down?

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yeah, My guess is that by the end of January
will have gotten something done. It may not be pretty,
it may not be everything you'd like, but I think
they will move in the direction of trying to fix
the system. Partially just because it is so expensive now.
I mean, do you want to talk about affordability, you

(03:33):
have to talk about fixing the healthcare system because that's
one of the biggest burdens. You know, the average family
of four now pays around twenty three to twenty four
thousand dollars every year. You're buying a small car every
year in your health insurance.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah, it's your way cost prohibitive. You're certainly right about that, sir.
Thank you for joining us this morning. By the way,
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