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If you are a blogger or microblogger focused on health care, I would really appreciate it if you'd participate in this very short survey focused around the Tom Daschle nomination as the Secretary of Health and Human Services and appointment as head of the White House Office of Health Reform. It's less than 8 questions and should take you a total of 6 minutes.

The survey can be accessed here and you will remain completely anonymous:… Continue

"Daschle and the Health Care Fight" By Philip Klein on 12.11.08 @ 12:20PM

Barack Obama has now made official the appointment of Tom Daschle to Secretary of Health and Human Services. I'll have a lot more on this (including some more from Tom Daschle's book on health care, which I just finished) but just a few quick things to emphasize.

For more: http://spectator.org/blog/2008/12/11/daschle-and-the-health-care-fi

http://www.gazette.com/opinion/health_43988___article.html/care_universal.html

Asking for trouble in health care
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November 24, 2008 - 5:38 PM
PAUL HSIEH, M.D., GUEST COLUMNIST

In the 1990s, politicians wanted to make home ownership as universal as possible. They used laws such as the Community Reinvestment Act to force banks to make unsustainable loans to millions of people. The… Continue

"We want to hear your voice. Use the discussion tool below to let us know what you liked about the health care discussion, and suggest ways to keep the conversation going in the future."

Let's inject some free market principles into this friendly discussion. I'd hate to see Daschle have the last word.

http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/join_the_discussion_daschles_healthcare_response/

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Most Americans want freedom to make health care decisions
By Devon Herrick

last updated: November 23, 2008 02:34:48 AM

DALLAS -- As a new Congress begins to look at health-care insurance options, some of the members are discussing proposals for a single-payer, universal health-care plan.

That'… Continue