Uninvited
Friday, December 5 2008
From the Wall Street Journal:
Mr. Daschle, who Obama transition officials say will be nominated secretary of Health and Human Services, will suggest that Americans hold holiday-season house parties to brainstorm over how best to overhaul the U.S. health-care system. He will promise to drop by one such party himself, and to take the ideas generated to President-elect Barack Obama.
I think Daschle is a good pick for HHS, but seriously: this is going to be the most tedious holiday party ever.
Americans don’t need to brainstorm over how best to overhaul the health care system: we pay a lot of people decent salaries to do that, and there are already a dozen or more plans out there. All we need to do is figure out what makes one plan better than the other. Universal coverage? Cost reduction? Preserving employment-based insurance? That’s a conversation worth having, but maybe not at a holiday party.
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