Why doesn every American have the right to universal health care coverage?
Gingrich: Well, first of all, remember that in some of those countries you’re citing, Canada being a good example, or Great Britain, they may have a system or a bureaucracy of national health care, but they don’t necessarily provide the care. You can go in with breast cancer and suddenly be told you’re not gonna get to a doctor for 2 months. You can go in for a knee operation in Canada and be told you’re too old, you’re not gonna get the operation. You can need kidney dialysis in Britain and be told you’re too old, you’re not gonna get the kidney dialysis. So while they have a system of primary care–you can get to an initial entry-level doctor pretty easily–when you get to really complicated, serious problems, an awful lot of Canadians end up at the University of Michigan or Northwestern Hospital in Chicago or a variety of other places ’cause they aren’t getting their care in Canada if it’s complicated and difficult and expensive. Now, I think as a matter of practicality, every Ameri
