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Health Care for All: PSN Applauds HHS Nominee Daschle's Commitment to Federal-State Collaboration on Health Care Reform | Progressive States Network
The Progressive States Network warmly applauds Wednesday's announcement that Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle will be nominated as the Secretary of Health and Human Services in President-Elect Barack Obama's future cabinet. As a luminary voice on the urgent issue of health care ...
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New HHS Chief Says States Will Play Integral Role In Health Care Reform
Open Left - Front Page — ... will come only from Washington, D.C., or whether it will involve state governments. Now that Tom Daschle is slated to become the head of Barack Obama's Department of Health and Human Services as well as the administration's universal health care czar, I'd say we know where the new administration comes down: decidedly with those who say a health care solution must come from both the federal government AND the states. That's the really big news about Daschle's appointment. Watch Daschle's keynote speech at the recent Progressive States Network meeting here - he's very ...

David Sirota: HHS Chief Daschle Says States Will Play Major Role In Health Care Reform
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... will come only from Washington, D.C., or whether it will involve state governments. Now that Tom Daschle is slated to become the head of Barack Obama's Department of Health and Human Services as well as the administration's universal health care czar, I'd say we know where the new administration comes down: decidedly with those who say a health care solution must come from both the federal government AND the states. That's the really big news about Daschle's appointment. Watch Daschle's keynote speech at the Progressive States Network meeting just a few months ago - ...

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