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'This is part of the emergency'
Political Animal —
'THIS IS PART OF THE EMERGENCY'.... For all the interest in Barack Obama's thoughts on the Blagojevich controversy, the president-elect had some more important things to say about healthcare . Calling an overhaul of the health care system a basic element of his administration's economic recovery programs, President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday presented former Senator Tom Daschle as his choice to become secretary of health and human services and to lead efforts to secure "affordable, accessible health care for every single American." [...] Mr. Obama, noting that more than ...
Hardly an Age of Centrism
The Corner on National Review Online —
... who is bound to be a smaller and more junior figure than any cabinet secretary, and an HHS Secretary who will simultaneously be a senior White House official the internal disagreements that will inevitably emerge once economic and health care policy decisions begin will prove very very difficult to resolve under such a confused arrangement, with no appreciation for inherent institutional tension and for human nature in a congregation of massive egos, and Rahm Emanuel is hardly the figure to calm these waters when the storms hit). But counting on them to stumble won t be ...
Obamacare Could Kill You
The American Spectator —
... Barack Obama's health care czar wants to change all that. Tom
Daschle wants to get costs under control, and he believes a
federal health care agency modeled on NICE will accomplish that
goal. And his boss is very much behind him on this. The
President-elect has repeatedly said
that the idea of a Federal Health Board "holds great
promise" for "giving this nation the health care it deserves."
But do we really deserve a health care system in which soulless
bureaucrats arbitrarily put a dollar value on our lives, in which
gravely ill patients are ...
