President Barack Obama is appointing Donald Berwick to be the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator while congress goes into recess.
This recess appointment is causing a furor as Berwick is clearly a radical socialist/Marxist. Berwick made remarks in London at the National Health Service conference on July 1, 2008.
At that conference, Berwick said:
Sick people tend to be poorer and that poor people tend to be sicker and that 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. Britain, you chose well.
Remember Obama's "redistribution of wealth" comments to Joe the Plumber back in the 2008 campaign?
He is also an "expert" on rationed healthcare. As Jake Tapper of ABC News pointed out:
In an interview last year with Biotechnology Healthcare, Berwick said society makes decisions about rationing all the time, and that the "decision is not whether or not we will ration care -- the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open. And right now, we are doing it blindly."
How's that hope and change working out for you?
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