Daschle Pick May Insure Healthcare Fight

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Friday November 21, 2008 · 8:38 PM PST

2008/11/21 · 20:38

Without re-igniting the Primary Wars I was one of those Democrats that chose another candidate in the Primary. The main reason I did this is that as an American with an expensive pre-existing condition that will be losing their Healthcare coverage soon, I felt I would be left out of any insurance that wasn't mandated.

After reading some of Tom Daschle's voting record and parts of his book I must say that this appointment served as President-elect Obama reaching out to a primary voter within his party that chose another candidate. It seems that Tom Daschle might be just who we need to lead this fight, for all of us.

Daschle has a long record of fighting for Healthcare as seen here. I like very much some of what he has said:

His basic idea: Create a board modeled on the Federal Reserve to "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."

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The best part is for folks like me, is that Daschle may fight for mandates too:

Daschle says Medicare should pay more for care that leads to good outcomes, and should stop paying for unnecessary or harmful treatments. Like Obama, he says Americans who want to keep their employer-based insurance should be allowed to do so, but people should also be able to buy insurance from the pool that covers federal employees, or from a new pool based on a similar model.

He also argues that all Americans should be required to buy health insurance — a key difference from Obama, who argues that only children should be required to have health insurance. (Plenty of powerful Dems, Max Baucus and Hillary Clinton, have also called for mandates).

http://blogs.wsj.com/...

With the way he was ousted by Republicans on 04 I think Daschle is the perfect person to lead this fight and would like to applaud President-elect Obama on such a wise choice. I hope we will all be fighting under them to make Healthcare Reform reality.

For those of us who remember the bruing fights of the early 90s, we know it will be hard. The Conservatives and their friends in the Insurance Lobby are going to fight this tooth-and-nail. I for one, am itching to take part in that fight.....

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