{"id":700,"date":"2008-12-15T15:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T19:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=700"},"modified":"2008-12-15T15:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T19:18:00","slug":"los-angeles-times-tom-daschle-has-his-own-health-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=700","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Times: Tom Daschle has his own health plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Times: Tom Daschle has his own health plan<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“Daschle is urging a far more aggressive push by those advocating systemic change.<\/p>\n

‘This means going on the offensive,’ he wrote in ‘Critical,’ his recent book about healthcare, in which he singled out drug makers and insurers as potential obstacles to a successful overhaul.<\/p>\n

‘We cannot assume that the public recognizes the distortions and fallacies peddled by the reform opponents; we have to educate people on the emptiness of the anti-reform rhetoric,’ he said.<\/p>\n

Daschle has even suggested using the Senate’s rules to prevent opponents from filibustering healthcare legislation, a move that one senior Republican staff member warned would make it ‘extremely difficult’ to get any GOP support for major reform.<\/p>\n

Daschle, who declined to be interviewed, has specific — and potentially controversial — ideas about how to reshape the healthcare system.<\/p>\n

Among other things, he envisions a new federal agency, which he calls a Federal Health Board, with the authority to set guidelines for what treatments and procedures are most cost-effective.<\/p>\n

Daschle argues that the board, which would have authority over federally funded healthcare programs such as Medicare, would insulate medical decisions from political meddling by Congress and could help design a system for achieving universal coverage.<\/p>\n

He also has called for a mandate to require all Americans to get health insurance and for the creation of a public insurance program to cover people who don’t get private insurance.”<\/p>\n

Also:<\/em><\/p>\n

“Taking another page from Daschle’s political playbook, the president-elect carefully framed a healthcare overhaul as an economic necessity and a moral imperative.<\/p>\n

‘Day after day,’ he said, ‘we witness the disgrace of parents unable to take a sick child to the doctor, seniors unable to afford their medicines, people who wind up in emergency rooms because they have nowhere else to turn.’ “<\/p>\n

The Federal Health Board sounds NICE.<\/a> That’s a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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