This is Obama's man

A man is judged well by the company he keeps and B Hussein Obama is showing his moderate credentials again.

Barry nominated Donald Berwick, CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, to be Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Now what type of “moderate” had moderate Obama selected? From a speech a few years ago in England (full text here):

“I am romantic about the NHS; I love it. All I need to do to rediscover the romance is to look at health care in my own country.”…

You could have chosen an easier route. My nation did. It’s easier in the United States because we do not promise health care as a human right. In America, people ask, "How can health care be a human right? We can’t afford it." As a result, almost 50 million Americans, one in seven, do not have health insurance. Here, you make it harder for yourselves, because you don’t make that excuse. You cap your healthcare budget, and you make the political and economic choices you need to make to keep affordability within reach. And, you leave no one out.

“Any health care funding plan that is just equitable civilized and humane must, must redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent health care is by definition redistributional.” …

Please don’t put your faith in market forces—It’s a popular idea: that Adam Smith’s invisible hand would do a better job of designing care than leaders with plans can. I find little evidence that market forces relying on consumers’ choosing among an array of products, with competitors’ fighting it out, leads to the healthcare system you want and need. In the US, competition is a major reason for our duplicative, supply driven, fragmented care system.

I can point out all the thousands of people who come from the UK and Canada for medical treatments....or how it has death panels in all but name...or that you have layers upon layers of bureaucracy sapping the resources the countries put into medicine...or that you have people sitting in ambulances outside of an emergency room because one they get into the emergency room they must be treated ...or the lack of specialists or how it takes months or years to get often times life saving surgery. Or as one Canadian pundit has said, "At least we had you (the US) to go to....once you’re gone, where will we go?"

But I have some questions. Will this leech with three Harvard (excuse me HAAAARVARD) degrees actually be the first in line to have his wealth "redistributed" and be the first to have to wait months to see a proctologist? Will he simply accept the decisions of a board of 30 something’s who at some point think his life had gone its course and the health service needs to "put its resources in other directions" as opposed to saving or prolonging his life? I wonder if he will actually conceive that the cost of those layers of bureaucrats could fund research, medical treatment, etc.

I think he's too smart to know that.