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September 2, 2009

Now for the newest Obamacare message

Topics: Political News and commentaries

First it was called a "healthcare" plan, then "insurance reform," now, we are apparently about to hear the debate retooled into a "civil rights" issue?

Tom Daschle (D, SD) on selling Obamacare:

"I think we have to do better at making this issue a moral imperative," Daschle told the New York Times Magazine.

"I don't think we've succeeded at that yet. I think the more we can bring everybody to an understanding about how this, in many respects, is the civil rights battle of the early part of this century -- it's a fight for the disabled, it's a fight for the sick, it's a fight for equal rights when it comes to health."

Will the Obama administration ever learn that it's not the spin and slick rhetoric that matters to the American people, it's the substance of the plan that counts?

As for Tom Daschle coming up with the "new" approach to sell Obamacare snake oil, one would think that he should be the last person to be advising the president on healthcare. Readers might recall that he was originally tapped by Obama to be Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, but ran into a not-so-little tax cheat problem. Since losing his Senate seat in 2004, Daschle has been promoting health care reform proposals, with his most comprehensive plan being outlined in his book Critical: What We Can Do About the Health Crisis." In his book he proposed a Federal Health Board, modeled loosely on the Federal Reserve System," that was nothing less than a prescription for a total federal government takeover of the health care system. The Board would dictate policies and decide on the rationing of care and treatments. Alarmingly, the stimulus" bill included $1.1 Billion for the equivalent of Daschle's "health care rationing board," (Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research) described in his book.

Posted by Abdul at September 2, 2009 5:56 AM

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