Newt On Healthcare

Newt is better when he's the feisty opposition. His idea on healthcare - rather than having one huge omnibus bill that tries to solve everything at once (for an industry that is 18% of the US Economy) is to do 4-5 smaller bills that tackle one issue at a time. One bill on tort reform. One bill on rules governing preexisting conditions and insurance. One bill addressing the uninsured. One bill fixing Medicare's unfunded liability.

This idea is makes a lot more sense to me. I suppose from Obama's perspective, he does not gain as much politically by doing it incrementally and can argue none of the pieces will work independently of one another.

To bring it back to my own life, experience, etc...doing one huge healthcare bill would be the equivalent of trying to start a movie studio...whereas Newt's suggestion would be more along the lines - write a good script, then make a good directing reel, produce a feature film, raise a fund, etc, etc. Do it in steps rather than all at once.