Problems in the health care system have only grown more severe since a series of health care meetings more than two years ago yielded few results. So President-elect Barack Obama's transition team has set up a new round of public sessions it hopes will translate into real changes this time. Complete Story...
Drawing on lessons from past debates, President-elect Barack Obama handed Tom Daschle two prime jobs Thursday and one gigantic assignment: overhauling the health care system so more people are covered by insurance.
Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle says he's looking to implement health care reform from the "grass roots up."
President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday named three veteran regulators to round out his economic team and vowed to revamp regulatory rules to prevent a repeat of the financial and economic debacles the country is suffering through.
Tom Daschle's new job as secretary of Health and Human Services would mark his return to Washington politics after a bitter Senate defeat left him searching for a way to stay involved.
Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle has accepted President-elect Barack Obama's offer to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, Democratic officials said Wednesday. The appointment has not been announced, but these officials said the job is Daschle's, barring an unforeseen problem as Obama's team reviews the background of the South Dakota Democrat.
President-elect Barack Obama is seriously considering selecting former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle as his secretary of Health and Human Services, a person close to the deliberations said Wednesday.
Former South Dakota Sen. Tom Daschle said Monday there is no chance Barack Obama will pick him as a running mate.
Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, whose office was a target of the anthrax attacks in 2001, said Sunday the suicide of the government's main suspect does not mean the case is over.
Sen. Barack Obama won the endorsement Wednesday of former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, who said the White House hopeful "personifies the future of Democratic leadership in our country."
Former Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle, accusing the GOP of spreading a message of fear, says he is considering a 2008 presidential bid.
"We wouldn't have had 8,500 of these discussions in a two-week period over the Christmas holidays a few years ago," Daschle said.
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The Former Senate Majority Leader will pull double duty in the Obama administration, serving as the Health and Human Services secretary and overseeing a new White House Office of Health Reform.
Senator Tom Daschle and the President Elect Obama Transition Team is requesting citizens across the country hold community discussions regarding health care reform in the new administration.
Barack Obama has tapped former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle to be his secretary of Health and Human Services, said Jonathan Cohn in The New Republic online, as well as his "point person on health care reform."
The effort to overhaul the nation's health system will begin next year with one clear advantage over previous attempts: A wide variety of interest groups are rooting for it to succeed rather than plotting to kill it.
A fresh sign of a possible early attempt at health-care reform by President-elect Barack Obama emerged on Nov. 19 with word that former Senate leader Tom Daschle accepted Obama's offer to become Secretary of Health & Human Services.
Hopefully, we do see the change that we need. I don't think that it's a bad idea to put some of Clinton's top advisors in these positions as long as they are pushing forward to change that will help our country stabilize the economy and reform our health care system.
I have been thinking that Barack Obama's candidacy and success is due in large part to former United States Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota.
As if this race for the Democratic Presidential nomination wasn't exciting enough, now we have to start thinking about which last name will accompany either Obama or Clinton on our Democratic yard signs this fall.
Meet The Press: Surrogates Battle Over Caucuses & Super Delegates By: Logan Murphy on Monday, March 10th, 2008 at 10:39 AM - PDT
Huffington Post blogger Glenn Hurowitz has written a book that is part Profiles in Courage for contemporary progressives, part academic monograph, part political manifesto and part Profiles in Cowardice.