Daschle nominated to head HHS, appeals to Americans for input

[57waldo57]

is it just me or does he say "challange" 100 times in each speech?

[podcastbard]

Healthcare needs to be done on a local level. We need local control on and for healthcare. Think in terms of a credit union but for healthcare. But would government/congress truely listen to new ideas from average citizens like myself. Will this get posted for all to see?

[whoo689]

Tom Daschle, Mr. Obama?? Seriously?? As much as I respect Daschle for his work in the Senate and being majority leader, I gotta say, I don't get this pick. Does he really have enough experience or expertise in health care?? I would expect at least a professor with expertise in healthcare or an expert from the Kaiser Foundation or former public health official SOMEONE who actually knows about healthcare in a big way. Being a Senator is not enough.

[Rm1000YrsWide]

I have a lot of respect for Daschle based on his Senate career too, and while he may not be the foremost expert on healthcare, he has apparently devoted a lot of time recently to studying the healthcare crisis and planning different ways of solving it. The culmination of this process was his exhaustively researched book, "Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis," published earlier this year, as mentioned in this press conference; I'll bet that the book played a part in this.

[rem120]

He published a well-known book earlier this year on how to fix the health care system in the US. I haven't read the book, but the fact he wrote it shows he knows a fair bit about health care, or at least isn't just an ex-Senator.

[poparozi]

You could only smile listening to Pres "OB"...You could only smile. Good Job Guys

[jocspg]

I live in North Italy and I lived in U.S.A. for one year and I can suggest you to look at the Italian health care system that I think it's much better than the American one. I feel safer here and this is the reason why I left U.S.A.

[madamsophia]

Bravo on this pick...good choice

[janichaz]

Tom Daschle is very good !Obama have a super team!!!

Go Obama!!!

[greycloud24]

tom's speach sounds like it was written by the people who write obama's speaches. public speach does not seem to be his strong point, and this makes me hopeful. i hope he has spent all of his effort learning what he does do. a jack of all trades is not what we need, we need a specialist who knows his field inside and out.

[myWORLDizDIGITAL]

heck yes!

it's almost January 20th!

later on,

XEM

[darwinsail]

Excelent choices. Congratulations!!

[OTHdjraj]

GO OBAMA!!! I'm behind you all the way!

[voyeurdug]

It's nice to get the story this way instead of as a ten-second sound bite on the commercial media with some "rip-and-read" reporter's summary of the 99% that was left out.