Report: Daschle to Head Health and Human Services from The Washington Independent

Moments after the Obama-Biden Transition team announced former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) would head a health care policy working group in the new administration, MSNBC reports that Daschle will serve as the next secretary of health and human services.

The appointment, if confirmed, suggests Obama is serious about making health care reform a top priority. Daschle, now a professor at Georgetown University and distinguished fellow at the Center for American Policy, has long been an advocate for comprehensively overhauling the nation's existing private health care system. Daschle published a book on the topic recently. In a piece for The Huffington Post earlier this year, Daschle outlined his proposal to create a Federal Health Board, modeled after the Federal Reserve Board.

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