Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Yay or Nay: Does Daschle withdrawal hurt the chances for health care reform?

Wow, what a difference a news cycle makes. In yesterday's EBN inBrief e-newsletter, we featured an item about how optimistic Congressional Democrats were about health care reform.

Barely hours later, former Sen. Tom Daschle withdrew his name from consideration to lead the Health and Human Services Department, the lastest among a string of Obama cabinet nominees to be outed with "tax issues."

After the shock of the announcement had rippled from the White House and beyond, out came the handicappers to assess the damage to President Obama's health care agenda.

You all are the best pundits I know on all things benefits-related, so what say you? Does Daschle's withdrawal hurt the chances for health care reform? Yay or Nay?

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