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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
