Surprise (for MTP viewers)! Gingrich supports subsidies to his organization's member companies

SUMMARY: On Meet the Press, after Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) suggested paying for health care reform by cutting Medicare Advantage's "multibillion-dollar subsidies to health insurance companies," Fox News contributor Newt Gingrich attacked the proposed cuts as taking "hundreds of billions of dollars out of Medicare" and claimed that "[p]eople who are in Medicare Advantage in rural America are getting a quality of health care they never got before." But neither Gingrich nor host David Gregory noted that Gingrich reportedly profits from his position as head of the Center for Health Transformation, which receives fees from insurance companies that sell Medicare Advantage plans.

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