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 […]
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VIDEO: SHAKE-UP AT BERWICK’S BELOVED NHS
VIDEO: BRITAIN’S NHS KILLS AGAIN
Britain’s NHS, the socialized medical system Obama’s CMS nominee loves, killed transplant patient Lyndsey Scott by giving her the lungs of a 30-year smoker. No, this is not some sick joke. The scariest part of this video is the segment in which the “Transplant Czar” defends the system. Watch it and contemplate your future under […]
DUMBEST BERWICK DEFENSE OF THE WEEK
Earlier this week, I predicted that there would be a lot of disingenuous journalism committed in support of Obama’s choice for CMS head. And, sure enough, we have seen all the usual red herrings, straw men and ad hominem attacks.
I must say, however, that even I was not prepared for the absurd combination of dishonesty and stupidity exhibited in the London Times by Alice […]
WHITEWASHING DONALD BERWICK’S RECORD
Jonathan Cohn, who does most of The New Republic’s health policy writing, was once an honest man. He was, being a “progressive,” usually wrong on health care. But, before Barack Obama became President, you could usually count on Cohn to tell the truth.
Sadly, those days are gone. Cohn has devolved into just another partisan hack parroting […]
GREAT BRITAIN’S NATIONAL HELL SERVICE
One of the reasons many of us worry about Donald Berwick, Obama’s nominee to head CMS, is his oft-stated love for the NHS—Britain’s socialized medical system. Here is an example of the kind of care that patients receive in the system for which Dr. Berwick has so much admiration:
As an experienced GP, Uday Pathak had good reason to trust his instincts […]
FORGET KAGAN, DONALD BERWICK IS THE NOMINEE WE SHOULD BE WORRIED ABOUT
Arguably, the single most powerful person in the U.S. health care system is the Administrator of CMS. As the head of a bureaucracy that directs the flow of roughly $1 trillion per year through our medical system and effectively dictates quality standards for hospitals, nursing homes and clinical laboratories, this individual’s influence stretches far beyond the bounds […]
VIDEO: OBAMA’S CMS NOMINEE SAYS HEALTH SYSTEMS “MUST REDISTRIBUTE WEALTH�
Donald Berwick is a true radical. In this video, he sings the praises of Britain’s NHS, which has created a third-world health care system in which rationing and patient neglect are commonplace. That system also used confidential patient medical records to create mailing lists for the Labour Party during the recent parliamentary election. And Obama wants an […]
THE FAILURES OF GOVT-RUN HEALTH CARE
An illuminating video that should make the truth clear to the meanest intelligence:
[HT AmSpecBlog]
PALIN IS RIGHT ABOUT DEATH PANELS
You can always tell when a high-profile conservative has made a logically irrefutable statement about health care reform—-the nutroots go even crazier than usual (no mean feat).
That’s what happened when former Alaska governor Sarah Palin had the temerity to point out the blindingly obvious truth about what she accurately described as “death panels”:
The Democrats promise […]
THIS IS GOVT-RUN HEALTH CARE
In an apparent effort to confirm our worst fears about socialized medicine, Britain’s rationing Czars have decided to stop paying for therapeutic pain injections:
Tens of thousands with chronic back pain will be forced to live in agony after a decision to slash the number of painkilling injections issued by the NHS, doctors have warned.Â
And what do these apparatchiks recommend for […]