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Crooks and Liars: Tom Daschle will head up Obama's HHS, and serves as point on health care
Wonk Room: Daschle’s Views On Health Reform: ‘Incremental Change In Our System Is No Longer A Viable Option’
Think Progress: Daschle’s Views On Health Reform: ‘Incremental Change In Our System Is No Longer A Viable Option’
Hit & Run: Breaking (From Yesterday)!: Reason Foundation's Proactive No Vote on Tom Daschle as HHS Secretary
Tom Daschle will head up Obama's HHS, and serves as point on health care
Crooks and Liars —
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So Tom Daschle is going to be Health and Human Services Secretary. Even the Republicans agree that it's a brilliant choice, since it will take someone with real knowledge of how to get things done in Congress to be an effective secretary here.
It's a key position because it means Daschle is going to be the point man on Obama's plans for health-care reform. Daschle already has laid out where he's going, and it's a decidedly progressive direction -- though, notably, it still falls short of a single-payer system. ...
Daschle’s Views On Health Reform: ‘Incremental Change In Our System Is No Longer A Viable Option’
Wonk Room —
... Aside from supporting the basic principles of progressive reform, however, Daschle also proposes a Federal Health Board that “would resemble our current Federal Reserve Board for the banking industry.” ...
Daschle’s Views On Health Reform: ‘Incremental Change In Our System Is No Longer A Viable Option’
Think Progress —
... Aside from supporting the basic principles of progressive reform, however, Daschle also proposes a Federal Health Board that “would resemble our current Federal Reserve Board for the banking industry.” ...
Breaking (From Yesterday)!: Reason Foundation's Proactive No Vote on Tom Daschle as HHS Secretary
Hit & Run —
... Meanwhile, since leaving the Senate, Daschle has written a book titled, Critical: What We Can Do About America's Health-Care Crisis, in which he recommends creating the equivalent of the Federal Reserve Board for health care to set treatment standards, performance requirements and impose other mandates on the industry. In short, create another layer of bureaucracy on top of the one that he would oversee and hand it even more powers. ...
