Posted on 07/14/2010 11:35:55 AM PDT by Qbert
Donald Berwick, recess-appointed by President Obama to head Medicare and Medicaid, is a well-known advocate of health care rationing and admirer of Britain's National Health Service. Rising health costs and limited resources "require decisions about who will have access to care and the extent of their coverage," Berwick wrote in 1999. Last year, he said, "The decision is not whether or not we will ration care -- the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open." Of the NHS, Berwick says simply, "I love it," adding that it is "one of the great human health care endeavors on earth."
As it turns out, Berwick himself does not have to deal with the anxieties created by limited access to care and the extent of coverage. In a special benefit conferred on him by the board of directors of the Institute for Health Care Improvement, a nonprofit health care charitable organization he created and which he served as chief executive officer, Berwick and his wife will have health coverage "from retirement until death."
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No mistake, the “ruling class” will have a different “tier” of healthcare than the “masses”.
Berwick’s “rationing with our eyes open” is simply an admission that those with political pull will get treatment and those without will be left to suffer and die.
Ahh, isn’t that special that hard working donors are paying for his and his wife’s health care for life. For it being a non-profit organization, some sure are profiting.
Instead I think they should have pulled the plug on Berwick.
Ever just feel like your head is going to explode? I don’t think its possible for me to be any angrier.... then there is a “...but wait...there’s more... “ moment.
To hell with tea parties...it’s time for the tar and feathers.
We are back to the days of the royal tyranny of the British except now instead of the British, it is our very own government.
Pitchforks, torches
tar and feathers,
535 rails for those
who think they are our “betters”.
The rich and well connected will always be able to get the best health care.
If you have money you can travel to where the best of whatever it is you want is available.
The rest of us will simply try to avoid the worst of what is available to us.
Internet chat rooms will supply us with the information of which hospitals and doctors to avoid.
Thanks Obama.
Quiet correct!
Berwick’s “rationing with our eyes open” is simply an admission that those with political pull will get treatment and those without will be left to suffer and die.
No, I'm afraid it's worse than that. I think that what it means is that, when doling out medical care from an increasingly overburdened and underfunded system, they will not be impartial. So, unlike blindfolded Justitia, they will rather take into account various other considerations, like race (to "compensate for past inequalities," of course), income-level, age, party membership, etc.
The ones with "political pull" won't even be waiting in line. They will likely have a completely independent and autonomous health-care system.
Regards,
The list, ping
Hey, at least they will suffer and die for “free”. No medical bills, that’s the first priority right? And even if you’re one of the people that pays confiscatory taxes for the privelege of soffering and dying for “free”, that’s okay because the governement withholds that tax and you don’t really feel it anyway. So it’s all good!
As a doc, if it ever came to that, the ‘ruling class’ would have to wait until each and every other ‘non-privileged’ patient was seen by me before I'd see them. Either that or I'd quit first.
This frckn infuriates me.
It’s called the “nomenklatura.”
“Don’t like it? Want to fight it? Want to quit? There are many ways to enforce compliance.”
If we get to that point, there will be no more USA, and we will all be fighting a much different fight.
This will give you FURY boils ! Deargawd .. these evil monsters!
Another Soros chess piece and frontman ? This is becoming a
marxist coup!! We are swarmed and battered daily.
Maggie, if you dig up where he’s gotten all the ‘grants’
and funding for this so-called non-profit, please post and ping me.
Lord, give us strength.
would you expect anything else?
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