PNHP recommendations for HHS

[eridani]

Yet some more options. Rahm doesn't AFAIK have vendettas against either. If you care about universal health care, let's be sure to have plans B,C,D, etc.

http://www.pnhp.org/blog/2009/02/04/dr-quentin-young-marcia-angell-or-david-satcher-for-hhs-secretary/

Today, Dr. Quentin Young, national coordinator of Physicians for a National Health Program, called on President Barack Obama to nominate Dr. Marcia Angell or Dr. David Satcher to head the Department of Health and Human Services.

Angell is a senior lecturer at Harvard Medical School and former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine. Satcher is a former U.S. surgeon general and is director of Morehouse School of Medicine’s Center of Excellence on Health Disparities.

Young said, “In the wake of former Sen. Tom Daschle’s downfall, it has become perfectly clear that the new HHS secretary must be free of compromising financial links to corporate medicine. In this regard, Dr. Marcia Angell or Dr. David Satcher would be superb candidates who pass this test.

“Either one of these distinguished physicians would make an excellent nominee for the position of HHS secretary,” Young continued, noting their many outstanding achievements in medicine and health policy. “Perhaps most important is their belief that health care is a human right, not a commodity for sale. We need precisely that kind of vision at the helm of HHS to help bring about the fundamental health reform our nation so desperately needs.”

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1. thanks for posting this.