Obama appoints Berwick to head Medicare and Medicaid

More great news from Dope and Shaft, err Hope and Change

Obama appoints Berwick to head Medicare and Medicaid during congressional recess - Political Intelligence - A national political and campaign blog from The Boston Globe - Boston.com">Obama appoints Berwick to head Medicare and Medicaid during congressional recess

By Globe Staff

WASHINGTON — President Obama will use the congressional recess to bypass the Senate and appoint Harvard Professor Donald Berwick tomorrow to oversee Medicare and Medicaid, a White House official said tonight.

Berwick, a pediatrician and president of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, a not-for-profit organization in Cambridge, is widely respected by many veteran policy officials, but Republicans, calling him an advocate of “rationing’’ health care, had been expected to grill him on his views during his confirmation hearing. GOP leaders had also intimated they would use the hearings as a forum to reopen the battle on President Obama’s health care law.

Yes, he is in favor of rationing health care. In case you need to be reminded



Now this is "objective journalism"

In vowing to fight his nomination, GOP lawmakers have cited Berwick’s support for controlling costs and his statements praising aspects of the United Kingdom’s national health system. They contend his positions show that he would seek to transform US health care into a tightly controlled system, reducing patient choices and delaying treatments.

No kidding Globe Staff. Everyone wants to control cost. But this over educated moron (I feel I must remind you that just because you have a doctorate degree that makes you educated....may not make you that bright) seems to think the way to do that is to have a huge bureaucracy that is insulated and in no way accountable to the consumers of services. We have examples of that already...Medicare...Medicaid...Social Security.

But I give him this. Doc, how about you live under the British NHS and deal with it first then get back to us....pray you don't get sick.

Hey Obama voters, didn't your man-child say there was going to be no rationing...if you liked your medical coverage you could keep it. Hey, how's that hope and change working out for you.