Posted on 01/27/2011 8:34:13 AM PST by upchuck
[Note: This is not a duplicate of http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2664090/posts as this thread is from a different source and contains information not in the other thread.]
President Obama renominated Donald Berwick yesterday as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a pivotal position in implementing the president’s health care law.
Using a recess appointment, Obama had placed Berwick, a Harvard professor and Boston pediatrician noted for his studies on improving health care without raising costs, into his post on July 7 after the Senate would not confirm him.
Some Republicans contended Berwick’s positions could lead to care rationing; others hinted they would vote against him in protest of the president’s health care overhaul.
The use of a recess appointment allows a president to fill a position without Senate confirmation when Congress is not in session.
Because of the way he was appointed, however, Berwick’s term runs only to the end of this year, and he would need to win confirmation in order to carry out key changes to the health care system.
Since in office, Berwick has been developing a system of innovation sites across the nation to test ways to improve care and cut costs.
The sites are the first step in changing the fundamental ways the government pays physicians and hospitals.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Berwick is a Communist and an advocate of the UK government-run, patient-abusing healthcare system. My vote on confirmation is NO.
I agree 100%.
I'll second that motion. This evil clown sees the purpose of government-run healthcare as means to redistribute wealth in society on a massive scale. And he's not shy about saying it either.
If anyone needed proof that his master believes that same, this recess appointment pretty much confirms it.
Guilty.
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Overseeing services or CUTS????? Remember, the somewhat exposed object here is to eliminate as many recipients as possible through rationing and Death Panels.
Needs hearings to expose how his foundation got millions in Obama bucks, then passed millions on to him in golden parachute.
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