Via The Glob and the WSJ Daschle is Obama's pick for HHS. Here are Daschle's views on health care solutions, via PNHP:
Daschle’s solution lies in the Federal Reserve Board, which has overseen the equally complicated financial system with great success. A Fed-like health board would offer a public framework within which a private health-care system can operate more effectively and efficiently — insulated from political pressure yet accountable to elected officials and the American people. Daschle argues that this independent board would create a single standard of care and exert tremendous influence on every other provider and payer, even those in the private sector.
Well, the crisis showed who the Fed works for, and it's not us.
So, who would Daschle's magic board work for? The insurance companies, I would think.
NOTE "Magic board" was a term of art back in the day when I was a debater (you lawyers know what I'm talking about). If you've got a terrible problem, then a "magic board" can always solve it -- because it's magic!
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but but but
I thought we were opposed to creating a whole new bureacracy
You didn't really think that, did you?
That was just propaganda to get him elected.
OK, lambert
I'm having technical issues, and the other technical issues thread is pages away, so I'm going to post them here.
1st, my page won't update. It doesn't matter where on the site I go, teh recent comments don't change until someone actually posts a comment. And then it says they just posted it 2 seconds ago. It won't update until I preview a new comment.
2nd, Everytime I return to the Front page, I'm logged out.
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- Sir William Drummond
Hi aeryl
See the block I just put up.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
It still isn't helping
I cleared my cookies, restarted IE, went back to the front page, logged in, checked an article, went back the front page again, and it still booted me out.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
- Sir William Drummond
Aeryl
I'm about to log you out myself. When that happens, please clear the cookies AND the cache, then restart again.
UPDATE 4:33PM Done. Please try now. Thanks!
Seems to have worked
I can go back to the front page w/out being logged out. Yea!!
Should I log out on my work computer, before going home and logging in on that one, could that be causing my freaky browser troubles?
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
- Sir William Drummond
Still won't update the comments though
It still says the above post was just posted 2 seconds ago, until I get to the preview screen, where it informs me that it was actually posted 6 mins and 39 seconds again.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
- Sir William Drummond
Yes, you should
I have another user who I think has the same problem. Thanks for your patience.
"flatly contradict his ethics policy"
-- Daschle appointment appears to contradict Obama ethics policy -- http://becoming44.org/content/daschle-ap...
"...Daschle is a special public policy advisor in Alston & Bird’s Washington, D.C., according to the firm's Web site, which singles out health care as an area of "particular emphasis." Elsewhere, the firm advertises that its health care legislative & public policy team "has the significant advantage of including two former U.S. Senate Majority Leaders – Senators Bob Dole and Tom Daschle."
We have asked the transition team how a health care team member for a major lobbying firm could take over Health and Human Services, a department primarily charged with overseeing health issues, without violating a prohibition against working on regulations or contracts related to his prior employer. ..."
Teddy's inviting Hillary in on health? now???
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/l... --
Ted Kennedy asks Hillary Clinton to head Senate healthcare team
"Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y), considered a prominent contender to become secretary of State in the Obama administration, was offered an alternative Tuesday -- to be a senior member of the Senate team aiming to overhaul the nation's healthcare system.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), who has announced plans to craft sweeping healthcare legislation next year, asked the former presidential contender to head a working group focused on insurance coverage. ..."
Hmmm. Very interesting,
especially after reading that she was supposedly rebuffed by him when she expressed an interest in working on healthcare.
Wonder what's going on.
i think it's a consolation prize--
or something like that--it's been clear to me all along that Obama has never wanted her in his administration at all.
or--maybe Hillary is bargaining for it herself? (which is better for us, i think) That's her condition for declining a Cabinet spot? (or something)
i really hope it's her doing--
that she's demanding this. i really really hope it is.
that Teddy's only coming out today to do this makes me think it is part of whatever bargaining/game is going on bet her and them.
I'm not trying to hasten anything.
I wish him a longer life, but realistically, how long do you think Kennedy really has?
who knows?
his generation of Kennedys didn't even live to be old.
He has enormous and very very real influence over Obama--that we all know. (and vice versa?)
we also know that he and Baucus are the ones that are deemed responsible for whatever health stuff goes to a vote.
and we now know for sure that Daschle is the administration person in charge of it too.
so? these are the players, and only today was Hillary even mentioned as being any part of it--that says a lot to me.
Politico also has story that Hillary is considering Just Say No-
Thin gruel to depend on, but I really, really do not want her taking the heat for Obama on his foreign policy decisions.
Guess I'll try calling her offices again. Email. Sigh.
Justin Raimondo at Antiwar.com sees Obama nominating Hillary (or, The Clintons, as he puts it) as Obama realizing he has little experience in foreign affairs and that he needs to spend all his efforts on the domestic issues. To me, the problem with that is that everything's intertwined.
(BTW, antiwar.com is having one of its fundraisers. They do yeoman's work in aggregating news about conflicts worldwide, even if the Libertarianism may not be your cup of tea. They do have a snail mail address for those who can only contribute a small amount and don't want to contribute to the credit card companies.)
"his area of greatest weakness"
--that's not true-- he was more specific and had more of an concrete agenda on foreign policy than on anything domestic.
and he's weak on everything--seriously.
and Hillary is not herself very strong on foreign policy in reality either --her greatest and longest-demonstrated work and experience and strength is entirely domestic-- Three Decades of work on Women and family issues and health care.
they said he picked Biden bec of his foreign policy experience. they said Powell gave him foreign policy cred. they said that of many people who support him-- all of whom have far more real experience in the area than Hillary--good and bad.
Why is this different
than HRC's situation: "But his wife, Linda Daschle, is a registered lobbyist at the powerful firm Baker Donelson, which does have some clients in health-related fields." from this article:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/19/t...
Just asking, and why isn't a big deal being made of it??????
I know! I know!
Could it be that the rules for the Daschels are different from the rules for the Clintons?
I remember very well right after 9/11, when the airlines got a bailout almost immediately, and Linda Daschle was a lobbyist for them when Tom was majority leader. Now, they needed a bailout, but it would be interesting to see what the terms of it were, and how everything worked out.
Well, maybe
the Obama people think that the State Department is more worthy of 'protection' than Health and Human Services, which translates to me that they don't have UHC very high or their priority list. Or maybe they just like leaking things about the Clintons. Or maybe both? There's a Bushian trait for you!
"Daschle's wife opens own lobbyist firm"
-- http://www.politico.com/news/stories/110...
"President-elect Barack Obama’s apparent decision to tap former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle as secretary of health and human services may have already affected his wife’s lobbying career.
Linda Daschle, one of Washington’s most prominent aviation lobbyists, said Wednesday that she’s leaving Baker Donelson as a senior policy adviser at the end of this year to open her own shop.
Daschle was mum on whether her husband will serve as HHS secretary – as Democratic and health industry sources say – and wouldn’t comment on the timing of her job change, except to say she notified the firm last week and it sent out a note on her move on Wednesday.
Presumably, Daschle’s decision to strike out on her own would give her complete control over her client list and ethical standards. She said she was proud of her professional conduct during her husband’s tenure in the Senate.
..."