New at Reason: Ron Bailey on "Health Care Czar" Tom Daschle

December 23, 2008

President-elect Barack Obama has nominated former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) to become the new Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. One of Daschle's more ambitious proposals is the creation of a Federal Health Board modeled loosely on the Federal Reserve Board and "composed of highly independent experts insulated from politics." But as Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey writes, Daschle's plan is just a smokescreen for the establishment of centralized health care rationing.

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