In today’s American Spectator, I discuss the interesting past of the woman Obama has nominated to replace Donald Berwick at CMS. During the President’s first address before a joint session of Congress he made the following pledge:
We will root out the waste, fraud, and abuse in our Medicare program that doesn’t make our seniors any […]
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DONALD BERWICK’S REPLACEMENT, MARILYN TAVENNER, IS A WOMAN WITH A PAST
AN HCA EXEC TO RUN CMS?
Now that Donald Berwick has resigned, President Obama has nominated Marilyn Tavenner to replace him as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). One wonders if she’ll get the Rick Scott treatment.
What, you ask, is Catron raving about now? Well, Rick Scott once ran a company called Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) that […]
BERWICK BITES THE DUST
Well, I guess we can all give thanks tomorrow that Dr. Donald Berwick, President Obama’s recess-appointed Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, has resigned:
The embattled acting director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Donald Berwick, will step down from his post on Dec. 2 after Republicans succeeded in blocking his […]
ALL YOUR HEALTH INFO ARE BELONG TO U.S.
Remember HIPAA? That’s the federal law that says, among other things, that no one has a right to see your confidential health information without your permission. Well, it would appear that there is at least one entity to which HIPAA apparently doesn’t apply—the federal government itself:
In a proposed rule from Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and the […]
GOVT SAYS OBAMACARE WILL MAKE HEALTH CARE MORE RATHER THAN LESS COSTLY
No one but the most brain-dead Obamazombie will be surprised by this, and it isn’t good news, but to see such estimates coming from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services nonetheless provides a certain amount of schadenfreude for those of us who have been predicting it all along:
Total spending is projected to grow annually […]
MAINE GETS AN OBAMACARE WAIVER, MORE STATES LINE UP FOR EXEMPTIONS
Yep. You read that correctly. The entire state of Maine has been awarded an ObamaCare waiver by Health and Human Services. And unlike the other thousand waivers HHS has handed out, this lasts for 3 years (see page 2):
The federal government Tuesday granted Maine a waiver of a key provision in President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul …
Why? […]
VIDEO: OBAMA’S HEALTH CARE CZAR RAKED OVER THE COALS BY REP. TOM PRICE, M.D.
Yesterday, Tom Price, M.D. (R-GA) questioned Donald Berwick, recess-appointed administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, at a hearing in the House Committee on Ways & Means. And Dr. Price was none too gentle about it. He pressed him especially hard on the promise that Americans could keep coverage that they like under ObamaCare. Berwick’s […]
BRINGING OBAMA’S MEDICRATS TO HEEL
Hey, here’s an idea: Instead of using the Arizona tragedy as a pretext for restricting free expression and dictating the names of Republican-sponsored bills, how about let’s rein in the out-of-control health care bureaucrats Obama has installed at HHS and the FDA. In my latest piece for the American Spectator, I give a few examples […]
DEATH PANELS UNDER YOUR CHRISTMAS TREE
While we voters celebrated our midterm victory over the arrogant Democrats in Congress and the White House, they were busy preparing a special Christmas present for us: newly wrapped death panels:
When a proposal to encourage end-of-life planning touched off a political storm over ‘death panels,’ Democrats dropped it from legislation to overhaul the health care system. But the Obama […]
RATIONING ALREADY A REALITY FOR SENIORS
One way the Democrats “paid” for ObamaCare was syphoning $500 billion out of the Medicare program. The government will pay doctors and hospitals less for the medical treatment of seniors.
What does that have to do with rationing? Well, the inevitable effect of these lower payments is a decrease in the number of health care providers […]