Gingrich Criticizes G.O.P.’s Medicare Plan

By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ
Published: May 15, 2011

WASHINGTON — Days after formally announcing his candidacy for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, Newt Gingrich on Sunday sharply criticized a plan by House Republicans that would drastically overhaul Medicare, the federal health care program for retirees.

Mr. Gingrich, the former speaker of the House who led a conservative resurgence in the 1990s, said that the Republican Medicare plan was “too big a jumpâ€