We have big but not insoluble problems. They can’t be solved in a top down fashion. Will the public cooperate in sacrifice and life style change if they don’t trust the government and the secretary of H & HS?
I value Glenn Greenwald; I think that he’s mostly correct about Daschlehttp://www.salon.com/.... Daschle has a good side, mostly related to his experience and coziness with the old pols and the insurance industry. He’s not dumb. Daschle was paid $20,000 to speak to America’s Health Insurance Plans, an insurance lobby group, in September. He was cozy with Obama then but saw no reason to curtail his well-paid insurance industry role. He made over $2 million from insurance “consulting” last year. It’s no surprise that AHIP endorsed his nomination. AHIP and Newt Gingrich love Daschle’s emphasis on electronic Health records (EHR).