Daschle's Gameplan on Govt-run healthcare bill

Daschle wants sob stories for the Socialized Medicine roadshow:

Tom Daschle, Obama's point man on health reform, discussed the early strategy for revamping the nation's $2 trillion health care system. Details of Obama's proposals won't be finalized for a while, but the political and public relations strategy is coming into place.

The strategy begins with giving people the chance to highlight their concerns and experiences. Daschle invited people around the nation to hold what amounts to house parties from Dec. 15-31. Obama's transition team will gather the information that's provided from those meetings and post the material on its Web site, Change.gov.

To put it in blunt terms, the Obama team is going to ramp up early in order to ram something through the Congress before it breaks down (like it did in 1993 and 1994). They are going to avoid a detailed plan from the administration side (which runs the risk of beign too vague, like Bush's plans on Social Security).

But ultimately the direction is all wrong. We don't need more Government healthcare mandates, we need less. . Now is NOT the time for massive government spending increases, nor is it a good time for increased mandates on businesses.