Mr. Daschle, who Obama transition officials say will be nominated secretary of Health and Human Services, will suggest that Americans hold holiday-season house parties to brainstorm over how best to overhaul the U.S. health-care system. He will promise to drop by one such party himself, and to take the ideas generated to President-elect Barack Obama.

Full story here.

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton want insurers to be forced to accept all enrollees for the same premium—regardless of health condition.  The result: health plans will run away from high-cost patients and underprovide to them if they do enroll.  By contrast, the Medicare Advantage program pays more for high-cost patients.  The result:  health plans actively compete for the chronically ill and have enrolled more than a million of them in "special needs" plans.  So what does Congress want to do about it?  Kill the program, of course (see WSJ article here).