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Dual Role for Health and Human Services Secretary
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According to the Associated Press, December 11, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle will play two roles in the new Obama administration. He will serve as HHS Secretary and also oversee a new role as Director of White House Health Policy Office.
Deputy Director Well Known
Jeanne Lambrew, who helped Daschle write a book on health care reform, will serve as deputy director of the new White House health policy office. Lambrew worked on health care reform issues at the White House during the Clinton administration and currently serves as a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank.
Assessment
Leaders of health advocacy groups have described Lambrew as one of Daschle’s most trusted advisers on health issues. She will oversee planning efforts.
Conclusion
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More on Daschle,
According to writer Maggie Mahar, the problem with domestic healthcare today is that: “too many proposals for health care reform focus solely on universal access and run the risk of sending good money after bad”. The question we need to ask is: “access to what”?
And, as healthcare journalist Merrill Goozner often points-out “while the lack of insurance leads to an estimated 22,000 unnecessary deaths each year, medical errors kill nearly 100,000—and most of those people were undoubtedly well insured.”
How can this be? As regular readers of the Medical Executive-Post know, while uninsured patients are undertreated, in our money-driven health care system, well-insured patients often are over-treated. And overtreatment can be dangerous. Unnecessary hospitalizations lead to hospital-acquired infections, wrong side surgery and medication mix-ups. Unneeded tests lead to false positives, false negatives, and treatments that can expose patients to risk without benefit.
And so, we trust the new doubly appointed healthcare czar, Tom Daschle, takes the above into consideration has he begins his efforts.
-Ann
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