By SALLY C. PIPES,Wall Street Journal
Barack Obama will effect your level of Healthcare
People are policy. And now that President-elect Barack Obama has fielded his team of Tom Daschle as secretary of Health and Human Services and Melody Barnes as director of the White House Domestic Policy Council,we can predict both the strategy and substance of the new administration’s health-care reform.
The prognosis is not good for patients,physicians or taxpayers. If Mr. Daschle meant what he wrote in his book “Critical:What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis,”Americans can expect a quick,hard push to build more federal bureaucracy,impose price controls,restrict medicines and technology,boost taxes,mandate the purchase of health insurance,and expand government health care.