This week’s award goes to Joe Paduda, who has discovered something that escaped the notice of most health reform commentators—Donald Berwick is a conservative. Paduda makes his award-winning claim over at Kevin, MD:
The recess appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick as head of CMS has incited a furor among politicians outraged at what they claim are his advocacy for rationing … […]
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MORE BERWICK HYPOCRISY
Donald Berwick, whom our flailing President recently installed as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid with a recess appointment, has long passed himself off as a champion of transparency. It would appear, however, that this is yet another situation in which Dr. Berwick has two standards—-one for himself and another for everyone else.
Before he became CMS administrator, […]
UK’S NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE ILLUSTRATES THE PROBLEM WITH “FREE” HEALTH CARE
Here’s what you can expect in the brave new health care world Donald Berwick, Obama’s new CMS administrator, has planned for you. The NHS, which Berwick “loves,” is running out of money (as will Medicare in the not-too-distant future) and the average Brit will pay a heavy price for depending on the nanny state for health care:
NHS bosses have drawn […]
GUN CONTROL & GOVT HEALTH CARE: WHAT DO THEY HAVE IN COMMON?
Paul Hsieh’s latest column for Pajamas Media correctly points out that both spring from the same elitist paternalism:
Both the gun control statists and the health care statists believe that we are fundamentally irrational creatures incapable of managing our lives. Hence, the government must restrict our freedoms for our own good.
This paternalism is the source of Donald […]
BERWICK TO GO BEFORE SENATE AFTER ALL?
Hmm … This is interesting. The Obama administration sent the Berwick nomination to the Senate on Monday for confirmation. This seems pretty odd considering that the President gave the man a recess appointment on July 7:
President Barack Obama still wants the U.S. Senate to confirm Donald Berwick as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services … […]
DR. BERWICK’S FAVORITE HEALTH SYSTEM
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” […]
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 […]
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 […]
