Business Casual is feeling very empowered today.
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt, who also blogs, said this week that blogging has the power to advance the debate on health care policy by allowing more interaction between members of the public and policymakers, according to the Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report.
He called blogging a “very powerful engine for public policy setting,” he said in Congressional Quarterly.
Leavitt said he writes about a range of topics, from his daily experiences to the decision-making process on various health care policies and issues such as Medicare, SCHIP and import safety, Kaiser reports.
Here is a link to Leavitt’s blog.
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According to EAGLE reporter, A. Atwater, author of this thread, Secretary of U.S. Health and Human Services, Mike Leavitt, called blogging “a very powerful engine for setting public policy.” Of course, Leavitt was talking about federal public policy.
I also hope that positive thoughtful blogging also contributes to public discussion of local issues right here in Wichita, river city, as well as Kansas, USA.
In Wichita, we have very few, if any, local government politicians who have the people skills, political abilities, knowledge of local issues, etc. to stand up with hands on their hips before an audience of TAX-PAYING CITIZENS to receive questions and comments and offer replies in an intellectually acceptable manner.
Here in Wichita, most of our local highly paid but underqualified politicians prefer to hide behind a dias in their commission/council chambers … attempting to appear as judges … to avoid a dialogue with the citizens who elected them.
So, the only way the public can hope to talk to elected representatives is through this relatively new phenomena of “blogging” and hope that some of the information reaches ears of our elected politicians.