Daschle Lays Out a Plan to Overhaul Health Care
But not how he is going to pay for it:
On other issues [besides offering affordable coverage to the more than 45 million people who are uninsured], Mr. Daschle said he would reduce the influence of politics at federal science agencies, seek more money for community health centers, speed the approval of low-cost generic versions of prescription drugs and try to increase Medicare payments to family doctors and other primary care physicians.
He also said he would increase federal support for rural health care providers, encourage greater use of health information technology and place more emphasis on the prevention of disease, rather than the treatment of it.
Mr. Daschle was not asked, and did not say, how he would pay for the new initiatives.
I wonder what he would have said had he been asked about it, in addition to everybody giving him a cuddly welcome at the confirmation hearing.
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