Is Change Coming? The President-Elect Appoints a Healthcare Reform Czar

Apologies from your blog host for a temporary slow-down on posts. The holiday preparations and year-end responsibilities always seem to combine into a “perfect-storm” of lost time.

Any how, I thought that the appointment of former South Dakota Senator,Tom Daschle, by President Elect Barack Obama as Health and Human Services Secretary and especially as Health Reform Czar deserved a mention here.

This certainly is not the first presidential attempt to address issues in America’s healthcare system, however some feel that the effort could not be more timely. Needless to say, there is a lot of stake for many in Delaware’s healthcare community. Not only do we face unknown changes in the quality of healthcare receive as consumers, we face potential momentous changes in our careers. What new responsibilities and requirements an restrictions are to come?

Daschle’s recent book, Critical: What Can We Do for the Health-Care Crisis?, may provide some insight on things to come.  Some feel that he favors a single-payer approach as used in many other industrialized nations. This, according to many critics, is paramount to practicing socialized medicine.  This certainly can open up major flood gates of debate, and perhaps it is time to get the discussion started.  Is real reform coming? Is it best to throw out what we have and start over, or is there some middle-ground that works?  Please register and post your thoughts!

Tags: Health and Human Services, Health-Care Reform Czar, Healthcare reform, Medical reform, Tom Daschle