How Medicare Does and Should Shape U.S. Health Care
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So what we are trying to do, first of all, is say,“Okay, here is a government monopoly plan. We’re designing a free-market plan . . . ” Now we didn’t get rid of it [the “government monopoly plan,” Medicare] in round one because we don’t think that’s politically smart and we don’t think that’s the right way to go through a transition . . . But we think it’s going to wither on the vine, because we think people are going to voluntarily leave it. —Newt Gingrich, Speaker of the House of Representatives (–), in a speech to a Blue Cross Conference, October ,
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