I have occasionally used the sad stories of Jack Rosser and Albert Baxter, both of whom were denied cancer drugs by Britain’s socialized medical system, to illustrate the cruel and arbitrary rationing methods utilized by all government-run health care systems.
For those of you who think that such horrors could never be inflicted on Americans, that all that stuff […]
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OBAMA ADMINISTRATION BEGINS RATIONING CANCER DRUGS
KLEIN IS LYIN’ ABOUT RYAN
One of the thorniest problems facing defenders of Obama’s new Medicare Czar, Donald Berwick, is how to explain away his views on health care rationing. In a 2009 interview, he delivered himself of the following remark:
The decision is not whether or not we will ration care; the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes […]
OBAMA PLANS RECESS APPOINTMENT FOR BERWICK
Well, by now, this shouldn’t be a surprise. Knowing that Donald Berwick is far too radical to be confirmed as the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Obama will slide him in while Congress is out of town:
President Obama intends to use a recess appointment to install Donald Berwick as the head of the […]
WHY “DOCTOR” BERWICK IS SO GLIB ABOUT HEALTH CARE RATIONING
Yesterday, I suggested that the Obama nominee we really need to worry about is not Elena Kagan. She, after all, will be a mere Supreme Court justice. She won’t have anywhere near the power over our daily lives that Donald Berwick will enjoy if he is confirmed as the Administrator of CMS.
If you’re not convinced, read this piece […]
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 […]
OBAMA’S BUDGET DIRECTOR EXPLAINS HOW DEATH PANEL WILL RATION HEALTH CARE
Oops. I forgot for a moment that the Thought Police have forbidden us to call it a “death panel.” The permitted label is “Independent Payment Advisory Board.” But when OMB Director Peter Orszag describes its powers, it sounds an awful lot like a … well … you know …
This Independent Payment Advisory Board has statutory power to make proposals […]
NEJM SURVEY: 46% OF PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIANS SAY OBAMACARE WILL FORCE THEM OUT OF MEDICINE
UPDATE:
NEJM has bowdlerized this story. This morning, the link below went directly to data from the survey. Now it takes you to a page about physician recruitment, the second paragraph of which provides a link to The Medicus Firm, which apparently conducted the survey in December.
As Paul Hsieh noted last night, NEJM is “hardly a right-wing rag.” An understatement if ever there […]
THE MOST INFLUENTIAL VOICE OF THE 2009 REFORM DEBATE: SARAH PALIN
It should have been easy for POTUS to dominate the debate, but Barack “just give me something to sign” Obama spent most of the year voting “present” while congressional Democrats peddled their votes to the highest bidder.
And there was ample opportunity for the Republicans to make an impact by coming out early with a serious proposal for free-market reform, but they spent most of […]
DEATH PANELS? PALIN HAS AN APP FOR THAT
Sarah Palin has weighed in on the the midnight mischief the Dems were up to last week, and she correctly points out that the allegedly non-existent death panel is still in their “reform” bill under a new alias—-Independent Payment Advisory Board:
Senator Jim DeMint spotted one shocking revelation regarding the section in the [Senate] bill describing … a […]
