Where Hillary Clinton failed, the team of President Barack Obama
and HHS Secretary Tom Daschle is determined to succeed--and the
political momentum is all on their side.
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“Americans won’t be able to buy the health care plans that they
want, because the government, in the same proposal, is going to say
what constitutes insurance and what doesn’t,” he said, adding that
the public option would also expose the plan’s objectives. “As soon
as we create a government insurance plan that will be subsidized by
the government, you won’t need to be a rocket scientist to figure
out that all competitors will be on life support and will be gone
after a period of time.”
He also predicted that Obama would have to reverse his campaign
stance and come out in favor of an individual mandate, which is
supported by Daschle and represents the only way to get insurers to
cooperate. Aside from being unpopular, Shadegg said, mandates have
been proven an “abject failure” in Massachusetts, where hundreds of
thousands of people remain noncompliant, and also are ineffective
in the 48 states that mandate automobile insurance.
Shadegg also observed that in his book, Daschle is “stunningly
candid about denying care” as a way to save money. As an example,
he quoted Daschle’s lament that “Many patients with insurance want
any care that might do some good, and plenty of doctors will oblige
them.”
In addition, Shadegg anticipated that Daschle will not be able
to abandon his idea of a Federal Health Board, even as the Federal
Reserve’s credibility has suffered from its handling of the
financial crisis. He said that it “is absolutely essential for what
they want to do with the health care system” and crucial to
Daschle’s legislative strategy. But it also complicates things from
a communications perspective.
“It will be difficult for Obama and Daschle to argue that we are
not going to a government-run health care if they insist on a board
that decides practices and procedures,” he said.
While acknowledging that many of the large interest groups won’t
be on the side of Republicans this time around, Shadegg urged some
skepticism. “If you speak to doctors, you will find that the AMA
does not speak for many of them,” he said, and insisted that such
groups do not represent the sentiments of the American people.
If large businesses support a government takeover of health
care, Shadegg predicted that Americans would see that they are
asking for a handout from taxpayers. And if Democrats end up, at
the behest of the insurance industry, proposing a mandate that
would fine Americans who do not purchase the industry’s product, it
would show that “we’re not the ones carrying water for the
insurance industry, the Democrats are carrying water for the
insurance industry.”
Dick Armey warned that while Democrats recharged after their
last defeat on health care and laid the groundwork for another
push, Republicans became too complacent and will have a lot of
catching up to do.
“The United States, after every military conflict historically,
we disarmed,” he said, noting that, once Republicans defeated
HillaryCare and took back Congress, they similarly stopped worrying
and didn’t make the case for reforming a broken system by freeing
up the health care market. “The question is, can Republicans
reequip themselves to get back into the fray when [Democrats] are
breathing down their necks again?”
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