President Obama’s recess-appointed Administrator of CMS famously said that “any healthcare funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane, must redistribute wealth …” That sounds very noble until you consider that it means authorizing the central government to use violence against people who disagree. This video from Reason TV really drives that point home: [ht [...]
Donald Berwick, the recess-appointed CMS commissar whose recent Senate hearing was accurately characterized by Orrin Hatch as “pathetic,” is routinely represented by the “news” media as a “champion of transparency.” But he refuses to answer questions from anyone not reading from a White House-approved script. He won’t answer queries about the shady financial deals he set up at his [...]
Today, four months after the President used a recess appointment to install him as CMS administrator, Donald Berwick will finally stoop to testify before the Senate Finance Committee: Don Berwick, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, will face vigorous questioning from Republicans when he appears before the Senate Finance Committee … If [...]
A couple of weeks ago, commenter (and docblogger) James Gaulte suggested that ObamaCare was really “a strategy to force private insurers out of the health care business so that we all could be saved by a governmental single payer?” Reviewing these old videos of the President, Kathleen Sebelius (his HHS secretary) and Donald Berwick (his CMS administrator), it’s [...]
Donald Berwick, who became the Commissar of CMS via an imperial decreee a Presidential recess appointment, has control of a gigantic bureaucracy with thousands of employees and a budget larger than that of the Pentagon. He directs the health care spending for 1 in 3 Americans and has the authority to dictate treatment standards for the nation’s hospitals, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
