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Daschle Begins Leading Health Care Reform
The Caucus —
... announced that the Obama team will be coordinating a series of “Health Care Community Discussions” around the country during the last two weeks of this month. This effort would be an extension, or perhaps a subset, of the Obama transition team’s forays into harnessing that vast grassroots network it built during the campaign as it tries to channel the diffuse but palpable energetic force into a newly formed, broader-based good. So to speak. So, at the transition team’s Web page, change.gov , those interested in health care policy — presumably at the micro, anecdotal level, as ...
Hullabaloo — ... during the campaign to make the twin challenge of controlling health-care costs and expanding coverage a top priority in his first term. This really looks like they're requesting policy ideas from citizens to work into their overall framework, although you never can tell. But by allowing people to invest in the policy, it certainly gives momentum to any effort to get it through Congress. The transition team is soliciting ideas through online comments and community forums. And health care came up quite a bit in the transition team's meeting ...
Health Care House Parties
The Democratic Daily —
... Anyone can sign up for a party to be held December 15-31st on the transition team’s official web site. Perhaps people could offer an Obama t-shirt as a door prize. ...
Linda Bergthold: Happy Health Care Reform New Year
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... House staffers have already been working on some of the most urgent issues - renewing and expanding children's health insurance; expanding the use of information technology to lessen the paperwork load on patients and doctors; reforming health insurance laws regarding pre-existing conditions; reforming Medicare and the physician payment system.
3. Health and Human Services designee Tom Daschle and his White House health reform colleague Jeanne Lambrew have been holding community meetings all over the country to solicit input.
4. The Obama website has ...
