Newt Gingrich to Testify Before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging

Contact: Rick Tyler,540-338-1250

WASHINGTON — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will testify before the United States Senate Special Committee on Aging. Gingrich will outline his key principles of a 21st Century System of Health and Healthcare and how it should apply to Medicare. Gingrich will share with the Committee four great drivers of change to transform the Medicare program so it can meet the demands of 76 million baby boomers nearing retirement age.

Gingrich’s testimony will describe a transformed electronically-based system of Medicare that is centered on the individual, prevention focused, knowledge intense, and innovation rich. Gingrich will make his case for a market-mediated system that will improve choice and quality while driving down costs.

The hearing will be held June 3, starting at 10 a.m. in Room 628 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC. Tuesday’s hearing will be webcast live and available for viewing later on the Aging Committee's website. An audio link of the hearing should also be available – during the hearing only – at http://www.capitolhearings.org.

Newt Gingrich is the author of Saving Lives & Saving Money: Transforming Health and Healthcare. Co-authored by Dana Pavey and Anne Woodbury, this book identifies the principles of transformation necessary to create a 21st Century System of Health and Healthcare that will both save lives and save money.

Written as a citizen’s guide, Gingrich noted that Saving Lives & Saving Money is the result of applying the lessons he learned from two decades of work in defense transformation, his experience in public health policy as a Member of Congress, years of research at the American Enterprise Institute where he is a Senior Fellow, and through consulting relationships with health-related businesses at his firm, the Gingrich Group.

The release of Saving Lives & Saving Money coincides with the launch by the Gingrich Group of the Center for Health Transformation (www.healthtransformation.net). Its mission, according to the center’s director Anne Woodbury, is to identify existing solutions that provide better outcomes at lower cost and to foster their implementation by sharing those solutions with the widest range of individuals, purchasers, providers, and government decision makers. Ultimately, this collaboration will accelerate the adoption of these practices and advance the public policies that are required to save lives and save money.

Saving Lives & Saving Money, an Alexis de Tocqueville publication printed and distributed by BookSurge, is available for purchase at www.newt.org or www.healthtransformation.net.