Funny how things just change on a dime. Doctor Pundit, as well as many other blogs and progressive media outlets, had more or less praised President Obama’s choice nominee for HHS Sec’y, former Sen. Tom Daschle. Until recently, that is. What started out as media tricklings last Friday about Daschle’s failure to pay income tax on some unreported income within the past three years turned out to be much more — an indictment against the principles the new president has fought so hard to shed from his image of Change. Obama promised change in the way the healthcare crisis was going to be handled: a change that would enhance access to healthcare affordability; a change that would guarantee a broader cloak of coverage in spite of the muscle of third party interests in promoting the healthcare marketplace status quo; a change that would blend the organizational structures of the federal government and the private sector in the creation of healthcare delivery checks and balances; and finally change that would result in a healthcare steward free of lobbying interests — those same interests that created the affordability and accessibility crisis we find ourselves in today. That steward who represented Change in healthcare was suppposed to be the honorable Tom Daschle. The only thing honorable about Daschle today is his decision to drop out of the confirmation process for HHS Sec’y altogether. | LINK
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