Leavitt and Daschle Debate Health Care

Randy Pate / June 05, 2009

On Tuesday, former HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt debated former Senator (and former Obama nominee for the top HHS post) Tom Daschle on health care reform at The National Press Club (articles summarizing the event here and here, video of portions of the event here , and an interesting blog post here).

The pair began by touching on areas of agreement in health care reform. They agreed that all Americans should have access to affordable health insurance, and that the current trend of rapid cost increases in health care is unsustainable. They also agreed that investments in health information technology and reforming the payment system to promote “value over volume” were necessary. (more…)