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The Man Who Would Have Been HHS Secretary Abandons Government-Run Option
Weekly Standard Blog —
... He's joining with fellow former Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker and Bob Dole to put forth a bipartisan compromise: ...
Daschle Urges Obama To Drop Public Health Care Plan
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... "We've come too far and gained too much momentum for our efforts to fail over disagreement on one single issue," the Senator and one-time HHS Secretary nominee said, according to ABC News. ...
Daschle Urges Obama To Drop Public Health Care Plan
The Political Carnival —
... "We've come too far and gained too much momentum for our efforts to fail over disagreement on one single issue," the Senator and one-time HHS Secretary nominee said, according to ABC News. ...
Public option limited
Balloon Juice —
... us following the health care debate. Asked whether a health care overhaul should give people a choice of both private insurance and a plan administered by the government, three-quarters rated it quite or extremely important. I’m told the unequivocal result surprised even the pollsters:
But wise old men, Tom Daschle and Bob Dole, still important despite their status as corporate whores/Britney-Spears-chasing perverts oppose it, more or less:
“While I feel very strongly that consumers should ...
Oh The Silliness
ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES —
That's what I sighed after reading about the new bipartisan health care proposal: In an attempt at bipartisanship, three former majority leaders of the U.S. Senate, Tom Daschle, Howard Baker, and Bob Dole, offered their solution today to the biggest obstacle to achieving health care reform -- a public option. "While I feel very strongly that consumers should have the choice of a national, Medicare-like plan, my colleagues do not. . . But we were concerned that the ongoing health reform debate is beginning to show signs of fracture on the ...
Without a Public Option, It's Not Really "Reform"
Daily Kos —
... Add Tom Daschle to the list of people who think that serious healthcare reform is simply not possible, and so instead we should all reach for the consolation prize of substanceless bipartisanship: ...
Health Care Resolution
Booman Tribune —
... Thu Jun 18th, 2009 at 02:54:04 PM EST I am going to try not to throw a fit every time that some Democrat says something stupid about the health care bill. Display: ...
Daschle: Obama should dump public healthcare plan option
Sister Toldjah —
ABC’s The Note reports:
In an attempt at bipartisanship, three former majority leaders of the U.S. Senate, Tom Daschle, Howard Baker, and Bob Dole, offered their solution today to the biggest obstacle to achieving health care reform — a public option.
“While I feel very strongly that consumers should have the choice of a national, Medicare-like plan, my colleagues do not. . . But we were concerned that the ongoing health reform debate is beginning to show signs of fracture on ...
Tom Daschle, “Bipartisan” Healthcare Industry Shill
Firedoglake —
... Hey, remember when Tom Daschle's little tax problem forced him to withdraw his nomination for Secretary of Health and Human Services, and I said good riddance to spineless corrupt rubbish? Looks like I had something there: ...
