Health Care BS

Well, by now, this shouldn’t be a surprise. Knowing that Donald Berwick is far too radical to be confirmed as the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Obama will slide him in while Congress is out of town:

President Obama intends to use a recess appointment to install Donald Berwick as the head of the government’s Medicare and Medicaid programs, a White House official said Tuesday.

This will allow Berwick to avoid the Senate’s pesky “advise and consent” role:

A recess appointment would allow Berwick to assume the post of administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services without undergoing confirmation hearings in the Senate.

Donald Berwick, as I pointed out in my recent American Spectator piece, promises to be the most activist and radical CMS head ever. And one of his priorities will be to impose the rationing that Americans have emphatically rejected.

But, for the Obama administration, the public will is nothing more than an obstacle to overcome, a minor inconvenience in the long march toward European-style socialism. As Benjamin Domenech puts it over at RedState:

As we saw in the process of Obamacare’s passage, there is nothing – not precedent, not tradition, not even the most basic expectations of fairness or responsible governance – that will stop President Obama and his allies in their quest to remake American social policy in their image.

Yep.