The January 2009 Newsletter is about healthcare reform. Page 1 reviews Tom Daschle's book on healthcare. On page 2, I use Daschle's book as an opportunity to look at some dynamics of leadership and group process and to suggest applications that we can use in our own organizations.
Daschle, the next Secretary of HHS, wrote Critical: What We Can Do about the Health-Care Crisis last February anticipating that he could influence the debate on reform. It appears that he will be proven right on that score. Still to be determined is whether he is correct about the final shape such reform will take, if indeed there is any reform at all.
In brief, although Daschle acknowledges the successes of single payer plans elsewhere, he deems a single payer plan to be politically infeasible in the US and proposes a compromise plan using the Federal Reserve as a model of the type of entity that could oversee the system.
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