Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? is a Latin phrase from the Roman poet Juvenal, variously translated as "Who watches the watchmen?", "Who watches the watchers?", "Who will guard the guards?", "Who shall watch the watchers themselves?"
Tony Blankley wrote, "As White House health care czar, it is a fair guess that Tom Daschle's view on health care legislation may be decisive."
He (Daschle) proposes the establishment of a Federal Health Board which will function to set the rules for who gets what level of health care (treatment, tests, etc.) taking away the judgment of physicians and other health care professionals.
Talk about fascism!
Tony Blankley, an article entitled, “Daschle-Obama Health Care Possibilities,” reported that, “on Page 179, he writes, "The Federal Health Board wouldn't be a regulatory agency, but its recommendations would have teeth because all federal health programs would have to abide by them." But here is the kicker: Although his board technically would have no say on the 68 percent of health care that is provided through the private sector, at the bottom of Page 179, Daschle modestly adds: "Congress could opt to go further with the Board's recommendations. It could, for example, link the tax exclusion for health insurance to insurance that complies with the Board's recommendation."
Blankley comments imply that, in essence, we would be letting the fox into the henhouse! The Federal Health Board, if empowered as Daschle proposes would be able to work without prior public knowledge of their deliberations and decisions. Truly, who watches the watchers?
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