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Newt Gingrich, The Future of Human Longevity: How Markets and Innovation Can Transform Medicare, June 3, 2003, Senate Special Committee on Aging (thomas.loc.gov)
In testimony before a special Senate committee on aging, AEI senior fellow Newt Gingrich opines that the United States currently stands "at the dawn of an explosion of knowledge that will change everything we know about science and, therefore, the human body." He outlines new technologies that promise to improve medicine through better understanding of mans' genetic makeup, technologies which can grow new types of cells, and efforts to customize other treatments to fit individuals' precise genetic codes.
Gingrich argues that making these new treatments available to baby boomers will require an overhaul of the "bureaucratic, red-tape-ridden, regulatory, third-party-payer system," that constitutes Medicare (the primary health ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Let the market fix medicare. (Science and Medicine).