April 06, 2006

"It's wealth care, not health care"

That's what U.S. Representative Rahm Emanuel of Illinois, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said yesterday in response to the President's visit to Connecticut to promote health savings accounts.

Sounds like a new slogan for the upcoming mid-term elections. Or maybe it's an old one I've just missed. But until this recent push for health savings accounts, it's been easy to miss meaningful discussion of health care reform from this Administration. Now the President is riding health savings accounts as far as he can.

The New York Times reports: "The White House has been pushing the plan all week, putting the president on domestic policy ground far from the war in Iraq, though officials said tackling health care costs was a main presidential priority."

Then where was all this priority talk in the 2004 election?

Posted by schwitz at April 6, 2006 09:51 AM | TrackBack
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