Matt Kibbe,The Washington Times
Obama will heal you,if you believe in him
Is Tom Daschle the 2009 version of Ira Magaziner? Mr. Daschle,named as President-elect Barack Obama’s health and human services secretary,will attempt to create a universal health-care system just as Ira Magaziner attempted under the Clinton administration. In 1993,Mr. Magaziner helped write and push a bill that would have nationalized health care. The plans and tactics may be different,but both men have the same ends –to drastically increase government control over our health care.
Their plans to achieve that end,however,are different. Mr. Daschle and Mr. Obama have learned from Mr. Magaziner and Bill Clinton’s past mistakes in health-care legislation and are prepared to take control of health care more cleverly this time.
In his book,“Critical:What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis,”Mr. Daschle outlines his plan to transfer control over health care to the government and his scheme to slip it past the American people. Having learned from Mr. Magaziner and the Clintons’failure,Mr. Daschle writes that the legislation should be purposefully vague. He explains it should simply call for shifting the power of health-care decisions into the hands of bureaucrats,rather than trying to pass detailed legislation through a skeptical Congress.