Newt Gingrich might pan our current ?redistribution, high-tax, big-bureaucracy, fundamentally corrupt model? of government, but he still urges President Obama and congressional Republicans to work together on a health-care reform plan.

Gingrich offers the details in the new TIME:

Reagan’s phrase “Trust but verify” is the best way to think of genuine bipartisan negotiations. Republicans will still be conservative. Obama and his team will still be liberal. The question is whether the two sides can find enough common ground to hammer out agreements that will be good for the American people.

The challenge for Obama is that in almost every case, the American people now want solutions different from his ideology and the passionate desires of his strongest partisans. A recent New York Times/CBS poll showed that by a 56% to 34% majority, the American people prefer “a smaller government providing fewer services” to “a bigger government providing more services.” An even larger majority, 59%, say the government is doing too much, while only 35% say it should be doing more.