Tom Daschle’s High Court of Health
January 16th, 2009 | by Brian Schwartz |In the Washington Times, Robert Moffit sums up the implications of Daschle’s proposed Federal Health Board:
“Details kill.” That’s Tom Daschle, President-elect Barack Obama’s nominee for secretary of health and human services and the nation’s new “health-care czar,” explaining to the Associated Press why national health reform has failed in the past. Big, clumsy Clinton-style health reform bills, the size of a telephone book, read and analyzed by ordinary people - that, according to Mr. Daschle, led to fatal criticism.
Translation: If we hadn’t spelled out the specifics of what we really wanted, we could have gotten our schemes past the public without a lot of noisy and unpleasant dissent and safely enacted into law.
Ironically, Mr. Daschle has given us quite a few details in a short and very readable book, “Critical: What We Can Do About The Health Care Crisis.” He describes his proposal for a Federal Health Board, a powerful body that would make key recommendations on the kinds of medical technologies, treatments, drugs and procedures Americans should have. …
Mr. Daschle’s prescription for health care reform is centralized government control over our health-care decisions by a powerful elite that will decide what’s good for us, and what isn’t.
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tags: Federal Health Board, Statism, Tom Daschle
