Tuesday
Jun022009
Healthcare Experts: Insurance Competition Healthy
By Aaron Richardson-Talk Radio News Service
Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and Joseph Levitt, former Secretary U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, spoke to reporters today at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Both answered questions from the press on why they thought U.S. healthcare reform is needed and purposed strategies on how to make it a reality. “(The U.S. has) not succeeded in the past in part because we (Congress) has failed to come together and reach the common ground to do something,” Daschle said.
With the November election of Barak Obama as U.S. President and so many Americans unable to access healthcare there is a new diligence to come to some type of agreement on how to alleviate the problem. Insurance companies are the greatest critics of making universal healthcare a reality, both men said. “Are we designing this system for the insurance companies or are we designing it for the American people?” said Levitt.
Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and Joseph Levitt, former Secretary U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, spoke to reporters today at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Both answered questions from the press on why they thought U.S. healthcare reform is needed and purposed strategies on how to make it a reality. “(The U.S. has) not succeeded in the past in part because we (Congress) has failed to come together and reach the common ground to do something,” Daschle said.
With the November election of Barak Obama as U.S. President and so many Americans unable to access healthcare there is a new diligence to come to some type of agreement on how to alleviate the problem. Insurance companies are the greatest critics of making universal healthcare a reality, both men said. “Are we designing this system for the insurance companies or are we designing it for the American people?” said Levitt.
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Reader Comments (3)
Howard Dean is correct.
"a"(Toothy, Robust)"public health insurance option is more important than bipartisanship, and Democrats should pass health-care legislation that includes the option with 51 votes if necessary."
"Democrats should have "no intention" of working with Republicans if it's not the strongest possible legislation that could be passed with a simple majority." (Howard Dean)
This is what WE THE PEOPLE gave the Democrats all that power to do for ALL of us.
You see, Dr. Dean knows that in medicine and healthcare there is only one acceptable standard. And that standard is the HIGHEST level of EXCELLENCE you can provide for everyone. Nothing less has ever been acceptable in caring for a precious human life.
And the White House is right too. "Good health care reform is essentially good economic policy." (Christina Romer)
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