A Growth Vision for Health Reform

Newt Gingrich, tidl. speaker i Repræsentanternes Hus og stifter af Center for Health Transformation, har et indlæg i WSJ (21/9), hvor han spørger, hvorfor en innovativ industri skal holdes nede og låses fast på en bestemt procent af bruttonationalproduktet.

Gingrich skriver, at USA til trods for sine problemer i sundhedsvæsenet, stadig er det mest innovative land. Men sundhedsreformen, som foreslået af demokraterne, risikerer at ændre det:

"The new bureaucracies that would be set up to reduce health-care spending by slashing payments to doctors, hospitals, surgeons, specialists, drug companies, high-tech equipment makers and others will kill the innovation that has served us so well. The essential incentives for the huge capital investment necessary to develop breakthrough treatments will be gone. And so too will high-paying jobs that these investments create."

Gingrich mener, at fortsat innovativ koster, men at incitamentet til innovation bliver svækket med sundhedsreformen.