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Daschle's Health Care Response Video: Interesting, Or Not?
techPresident —
... for improving health care. Today, the team responded to our comments with a video from Tom Daschle (recently nominated for Secretary of Health & Human Services) and Lauren Aronson. ...
Obama Team Hocks Obama-Themed Stocking Stuffers, Health Care Conversation
Political Punch —
... Obama Team Hocks Obama-Themed Stocking Stuffers, Health Care Conversation December 02, 2008 5:48 PM Last week the Obama Transition Team's Health Policy Team solicited ideas from voters on revamping the health care industry. In this video to supporters released this afternoon , Health Policy Team members Lauren Aronson and Tom Daschle -- President-elect Obama's nominee to be Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services -- thank the 3,500 participants and discuss some of their ideas, including creating a "Health Corps," like the Peace Corps except for health ...
More Wonkery We Can Believe In
Oliver Willis —
Tom Daschle responds via video to health care questions for the transition team.
Join The Discussion: Health Care
ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES —
Tom Daschle and Lauren Aronson want your comments on health care: This video summarizes a few of the ideas people have proposed: focusing more on prevention, setting up a Health Corps (like the Peace Corps) for recent graduates of the health care profession and focusing on cost-containment and how to provide health insurance for part-timers. I don't want to throw cold water on these plans but I will. First, prevention is wonderful, assuming that it works (not all types of prevention have ...
Daily Digest: General Daschle Mobilizing Army for Looming Health Care Fight
techPresident —
... Obama's HHS appointee Tom Daschle has taken to the transition website Change.gov to respond to comments about how to cure what ails the American health landscape. But, of course, "interactivity" isn't necessarily limited to the web. The Washington Post's Ceci Connolly has a fascinating look at ...
Tom Daschle wants your comments on health care
Corrente —
Tell Tom Daschle that you want health care not health insurance!
Via Echidne who has some dead on remarks about a health care corps and cost containment: Read more…
The Other Transition: Whither Obama's Movement?
techPresident —
... field organizers from battleground states has been enlisted to draw up a plan."
What exactly is going on? The Obama people are saying very little. For a team that has been refreshingly open about the transition in Washington--not only posting an extensive list of transition staffers and donors but inviting public comments on top issues like health care and the economy, letting everyone see those comments and rate their value, beginning to engage in open dialogue via YouTube and mass conference calls and community discussions, ...
You're Out, Tom
The American Spectator —
... TAS that Daschle had reached out to the leading physicians' group shortly after the election. When he was officially announced as Obama's choice for HHS, Daschle quickly emerged as the public face of the health-care reform effort. He traveled around the country to host health-care discussions aimed at generating grassroots support, and recorded videos for the change.gov transition website. As things were, it was going to be difficult to make a comprehensive overhaul of the health-care system a part of the agenda for the first 100 days. Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA), who serves ...
Ari Melber: Obama's Online Health Care Drive: Epic Fail?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... OFA's current organizing emphasis is at least inefficient, even on its own top-down terms. (The health care experiments on the government side during the transition period, to be fair, were more bottom-up.) And judged against broader values, it obviously fails to tap the ambition, ability, sophistication and creativity that bubbled up through more open networks during Obama's campaign. ...
