time.com - 1/8/2009
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Showing the emphasis that some lawmakers are putting on health care issues this year, former Sen. Tom Daschle will be the first of President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet choices to undergo a hearing
online.wsj.com - 1/8/2009
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TOM PRICE Perhaps the greatest missed opportunity of
the past eight years was the chance for Republicans...
to fundamentally reform the terribly broken American health-care system. Access to quality health care has long been a professed priority, yet ...
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Opinion: Fight Obama on Health Care
washingtontimes.com - 1/8/2009
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washingtontimes.com —
By: kltuttle They should call it 'Health Care
for Friends'. If you have the power to decide...
who gets health care and who does not, friends get health care and nasty people you do not like and would rather they died anyway, do not. December 28, 2008 at ...
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CANNON: Avoiding health-care chaos
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Confirmation Hearings Begin Thursday
The Page by Mark Halperin —
... Health and Human Services nominee Tom Daschle is the first up.
Daschle will likely face tough questioning on his call for a new public insurance plan to compete with private insurance companies.
Plus: Politico digs into the backstory of Daschle reportedly not caring for Hillary Clinton's tactics for fixing health care 15 years ago.
See latest schedule of the hearings here. ...
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Daschle confirmation hearing today —
msnbc.com: Politics 1/8/2009
Showing the emphasis that some lawmakers are putting on health care issues this year, former Sen. Tom Daschle will be the first of President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet choices to undergo a hearing.
Transition: Obama's 'super cabinet' —
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The Washington Post delves into the fact that Obama is putting together a West Wing that is as powerful (if not more so) than the Cabinet. "Presidents have long strived to centralize influence in the White House, often to the frustration of their ...
Senate set to OK Daschle as health secretary —
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle pledged to restore confidence in federal agencies and base decisions on science, not politics, as he began making his case to the U.S. Senate on Thursday to become President-elect Barack ...
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