Obama Appoints Lobbyist Tom Daschle as Secretary of Health and Human Services

[Knightskye]

Change, change, change, CHAAAANNNNNNGGEEEE!

Or not?

[werdd]

daschle is a ***

[Knightskye]

Didn't Obama brag that he didn't have any lobbyists in his campaign?

But now he has one in his cabinet.

I wonder if he'll run for President in 2012.

Tommy Thompson was the Secretary of HHS from 2001 to 2005. And he ran in '08.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_T...ices_Secretary

[constitutional]

Change, change, change, CHAAAANNNNNNGGEEEE!

Or not?

Wrong forum, belongs to General Politics.

[nbruno322]

Bill Richardson and Madeline Albright on Clinton's Iraq sanctions that prevented medicine and food from being imported resulting in the deaths of 500,000 children from starvation and preventable illness.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S1YkQs5nXQ


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbIX1CP9qr4

[Danke]

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MEDIA RELEASE
Thursday, November 19, 2008
For Immediate Release



Daschle pick signals Obama's plan to
resurrect national health care


In response to President-elect Barack Obama's choice of Tom Daschle for Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Twila Brase, president of Citizens' Council on Health Care, releases the following statement:


"Mr. Obama's choice for Secretary of HHS signals a plan to eliminate free-markets and resurrect national health care.

"In his March 3, 2008 Huffington Post article, "Progressive Solutions to American's Health-Care Crisis," Tom Daschle publicly calls for the federal government to control all facets of health insurance and direct the practice of medicine.

"Mr. Daschle, in his book "Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis" says he wants government officials to have online access to all patient records for ongoing surveillance, government research, and monitoring of physician treatment decisions.

"Daschle proposes a national health board modeled after the Federal Reserve Board for Banking. This Federal Health Board would oversee the entire health care system. Mr. Daschle calls it "Fed Health".

"If Mr. Daschle succeeds, Americans can expect that all private medical decisions—and their doctors—could soon be under federal control. This is not the kind of change American patients want in health care."


Twila Brase, president of CCHC


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Citizens' Council on Health Care supports freedom for patients and doctors, medical
innovation, and the right to a confidential patient-doctor relationship