There are, of course, all kinds of reasons to be concerned about Obama’s newly installed CMS administrator, not least his notion of what a successful health care system looks like.
Berwick has, for example, made no secret of his great admiration for Great Britain’s NHS, and this should scare the daylights out of you. Here’s the latest on that “success” […]
Health Care BS
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DR. BERWICK’S FAVORITE HEALTH SYSTEM
POTUS, DOJ AND THE OCARE TAX FLIP-FLOP
If you want to know why the major bird cage liners are begging for government subsidies to stop their slide into bankruptcy, this piece in the NYT pretty much tells the tale:
When Congress required most Americans to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty, Democrats denied that they were creating a new tax. But in court, the […]
DONALD BERWICK’S BRAZEN HYPOCRISY
Obama’s new Medicare Czar has made arrangements to keep himself off the very government health care program through which he plans to impose rationing on the rest of us. The folks at Pajamas Media were kind enough to run my column on Berwick’s hypocrisy:
Dr. Berwick has made sure that he and his wife will never be subjected to […]
GOP BITES BACK ON BERWICK APPOINTMENT
The GOP IS understandably unhappy with Obama’s recess appointment of Donald Berwick to the post of CMS administrator without so much as a committee hearing . And they are holding up other Obama appointments in the Senate until Dr. Berwick appears before them.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) blocked a Democratic request Wednesday evening to advance […]
VIDEO: DIM SENATOR MIKULSKI OUTDUMBS JACKSON LEE
Apparently, Senator Mikulski (D-Md) is jealous of all the attention Sheila Jackson Lee is getting for her idiotic Viet Nam speech. So, when the folks from CNSNews asked about the controversial views of our new CMS administrator, she began discussing his confirmation hearings:
I’m going to look at what the health reform bill is … And as we […]
YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!
That’s what the FDA has told Americans who want a little information about their own DNA. Paul Hsieh has a good piece at PajamasMedia outlining this latest example of federal paternalism:
Recent advances in biotechnology have allowed private companies to offer affordable genetic testing directly to consumers, to help them determine their risks of developing problems […]
THE AMA GETS NO RESPECT IN THE MORNING
My new column at the American Spectator discusses the humiliating failure of the AMA’s roundheel strategy. J. James Rohack, who recently stepped down from his post as the organization’s President, climbed into bed with the Dems and didn’t even get paid for his “services”:
The country’s largest physician association has completely compromised its integrity and received virtually […]
NEW MEDICARE CZAR OPTS OUT OF MEDICARE
It’s bad enough that Donald Berwick favors every bad idea the Left has hatched in the past century—-central-planning, wealth redistribution and health care rationing.
Now we discover that he has made a special deal with his former employer to avoid the very health care system he plans to impose on the most vulnerable of our citizens:
Berwick […]
SURVEY: THE EDUCATED HATE OBAMACARE MORE THAN THE IGNORANT LIKE IT
Pew has just released a public opinion survey that contains all manner of interesting information. It shows, for example, that public disapproval of Obamacare is increasing (so much for the Dem-MSM talking points).
But the finding that jumped out at me was that disapproval of Obamacare goes up with the education level of the respondents. College educated respondents dislike […]
VIDEO: SHAKE-UP AT BERWICK’S BELOVED NHS
One of the tragic ironies of Obama’s recess appointment of Donald Berwick, an avid admirer of Britain’s socialized medical system, is that the UK itself has taken its first step AWAY from the failed command and control model.
Like France, and other European social democracies, Britain’s leadership has finally figured out that the old top-down, central […]