Country in Danger of Health Dictatorship

States should be given more control over how to run health care programs rather than broaden the federal government's role in a system that's already rife with problems, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Thursday. "Maybe we would be better off having 50 parallel experiments," Gingrich told reporters at the Center for Health Transformation, which was unveiling its latest review on the impact of the federal health care law. The law grants the federal government 1,968 new and expanded powers -- most of which would fall under the purview of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius -- and 159 new federal offices, according to the center founded by Gingrich.