Job-Based Health Care Threatened

"There is no short-term prospect of enactment," former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, a leading Democratic adviser on health care. "However, in a tax reform (and) deficit reducing context in the long term, the prospects are much better," said Daschle. He opposes repealing the tax break by itself, but says he would be "willing to look" at it with other changes that improve access to quality health care while reducing costs.

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Both Daschle and his wife are lobbyists for and with healthcare-related connections: He serves on the boards of Prime BioSolutions and the Mayo Clinic, among others, and his law firm lobbies for a number of industry clients, including CVS Caremark, the National Association for Home Care and Hospice, Abbott Laboratories and HealthSouth, while her firm lobbies for other healthcare-related corporations.

Why the F is Daschle in any position where he's "willing to look at" what is ultimately government policy?  
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