Health Care: The president recess-appoints a fan of rationing and Britain’s National Health Service to direct one-third of American health care. Why does the administration want his views hidden from scrutiny?
‘The decision is not whether or not we will ration care — the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open.” That’s what Dr. Donald Berwick, President Obama’s nominee to head the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, told a National Institutes of Health publication a year ago, when he was just president and CEO of the Institute for Health Care Improvement.
Such views were to be fodder for a stormy confirmation hearing — except none has been scheduled.
Instead, Obama opted to make a recess appointment of Berwick to head CMS, an agency that oversees a third of all health care spending in the U.S. and that will play a major role under ObamaCare in deciding what care is available and who gets it.
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So what kind of doctor is Dr. Donald Berwick – medical or is his doctorate in admin? Another Harvard degree – another “pie in the sky” administrator. Why pretend, health officals should eliminate the sick and injured without the “caring and sharing” mantra – we feel you pain therefore we are going to expedite you journey to the other side. It was nice knowing you, we will close the door on your way out. This would solve their problem of too few resources for too many patients. Its an experiment – let see how many faulty human beings can be eliminated before the healthy wake up. Cheers, I think.