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The president has given his list of nominations for HHS Secretary. Phil Bredesen presided over the largest state cutback of public health programs in the history of our nation, so how can one not be worried about him?
I worry that the relationship he would have to the Obama team would harm the credibility of what the president is trying to do. And I think it would create a firestorm among the strongest supporters of health care reform. That last part is really important. Back durng he 1993-1994 fight over health care reform, liberals never rallied around the Clinton plan. And that lack of support was a key reason Clinton and his allies crumbled once conservatives, working hand in hand with their kindred interest groups, started to attack.
One of the primary reasons for optimism Obama might succeed where Clinton failed is that the left seems engaged and enthusiastic this time around. Groups like the Service Employees International Union are pouring money and bodies into a grassroots push for health care; liberals, generally, are unified behind the sort of plan Obama is likely to push, even if they don't consider it ideal.
Putting Bredesen at HHS would threaten that progress and, in the process, threaten the prospects of enacting health reform.
We, the undersigned, call on the president of the United States to forgo his nomination of Governor Phil Bredesen of Tennesse for HHS Secretary.
Phil Bredesen presided over the largest state cutback of public health programs in the history of our nation, so how can one not be worried about him? I worry that the relationship he would have to the Obama team would harm the credibility of what the president is trying to do. And I think it would create a firestorm among the strongest supporters of health care reform. That last part is really important. Back durng he 1993-1994 fight over health care reform, liberals never rallied around the Clinton plan. And that lack of support was a key reason Clinton and his allies crumbled once conservatives, working hand in hand with their kindred interest groups, started to attack.
One of the primary reasons for optimism Obama might succeed where Clinton failed is that the left seems engaged and enthusiastic this time around. Groups like the Service Employees International Union are pouring money and bodies into a grassroots push for health care; liberals, generally, are unified behind the sort of plan Obama is likely to push, even if they don't consider it ideal.
Putting Bredesen at HHS would threaten that progress and, in the process, threaten the prospects of enacting health reform for our Nation.
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