Comments on: DONALD BERWICK’S BRAZEN HYPOCRISY http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/07/18/donald-berwicks-brazen-hypocrisy/ Cleaning the Augean Stables of the Health Care Debate Thu, 10 May 2012 21:39:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Seamus Muldoon http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/07/18/donald-berwicks-brazen-hypocrisy/#comment-461553 Seamus Muldoon Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:19:47 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/07/18/donald-berwicks-brazen-hypocrisy/#comment-461553 Marc, reductio ad absurdum Seamus Marc,

reductio ad absurdum

Seamus

]]> By: Marc Brown http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/07/18/donald-berwicks-brazen-hypocrisy/#comment-461547 Marc Brown Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:14:52 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/07/18/donald-berwicks-brazen-hypocrisy/#comment-461547 Trouble is, you've no argument. Next you'll be saying that to pass a food stamps program you have to be eligible for stamps. Or for a drugs program for those with HIV/AIDS you have to be HIV positive. And of course Medicare is good enough for everyone - why even you tea party folk like it. Trouble is, you’ve no argument. Next you’ll be saying that to pass a food stamps program you have to be eligible for stamps. Or for a drugs program for those with HIV/AIDS you have to be HIV positive. And of course Medicare is good enough for everyone – why even you tea party folk like it.

]]> By: Seamus Muldoon http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/07/18/donald-berwicks-brazen-hypocrisy/#comment-461546 Seamus Muldoon Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:01:14 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/07/18/donald-berwicks-brazen-hypocrisy/#comment-461546 "I will add, as a fifth circumstance in the situation of the House of Representatives, restraining them from oppressive measures, that they can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society. " -Federalist #57 Legislators (and by extension, regulators) and their families need to feel the teeth of the rules they seek to impose on others. “I will add, as a fifth circumstance in the situation of the House of Representatives, restraining them from oppressive measures, that they can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society. ” -Federalist #57
Legislators (and by extension, regulators) and their families need to feel the teeth of the rules they seek to impose on others.

]]> By: ECM http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/07/18/donald-berwicks-brazen-hypocrisy/#comment-461540 ECM Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:41:04 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/07/18/donald-berwicks-brazen-hypocrisy/#comment-461540 Mike: Hang around here long enough and you'll find that Marc is all elitist, all the time. (When he isn't burying the comments in non sequiturs and ad hominem.) Mike:

Hang around here long enough and you’ll find that Marc is all elitist, all the time. (When he isn’t burying the comments in non sequiturs and ad hominem.)

]]> By: Mike H. http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/07/18/donald-berwicks-brazen-hypocrisy/#comment-461532 Mike H. Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:22:50 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/07/18/donald-berwicks-brazen-hypocrisy/#comment-461532 Marc, they shouldn't mandate anything that they won't sign up for. That includes LBJ and the other weasels. That also goes for bureaucrats and gop officeholders. If it's not good enough for everybody, don't pass it. BTW, nice elitist attitude you have there. Marc, they shouldn’t mandate anything that they won’t sign up for. That includes LBJ and the other weasels. That also goes for bureaucrats and gop officeholders.

If it’s not good enough for everybody, don’t pass it.

BTW, nice elitist attitude you have there.

]]> By: Marc Brown http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/07/18/donald-berwicks-brazen-hypocrisy/#comment-461530 Marc Brown Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:58:22 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/07/18/donald-berwicks-brazen-hypocrisy/#comment-461530 He got his long-term health benefits in 2003, David. As Matt said on the other post, he wouldn't ask Berwick to forego his benefits from previous employment, and I'm sure neither would you. By your logic, no-one in government should legislate on anything they are not directly affected by. I'm sure Lyndon Johnson wasn't going to transfer to Medicare when he signed the bill but thank goodness some Americans aren't too selfish to consider the plight of others. He got his long-term health benefits in 2003, David. As Matt said on the other post, he wouldn’t ask Berwick to forego his benefits from previous employment, and I’m sure neither would you. By your logic, no-one in government should legislate on anything they are not directly affected by. I’m sure Lyndon Johnson wasn’t going to transfer to Medicare when he signed the bill but thank goodness some Americans aren’t too selfish to consider the plight of others.

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