Health-care rationing is a key component of Obamacare and the president has found his man to oversee the government's efforts to decide who gets future health care and who doesn't. In other words, who lives and who dies.From CNSNews.com:
President Barack Obama today circumvented the Senate confirmation process by granting a recess appointment to Dr. Donald Berwick to be director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the federal agency that runs Medicare and Medicaid.Read the full story, "Obama's Unconfirmed 'Recess' Appointee to Run Medicare Advocated Rationing, Redistribution of Wealth," here.
Berwick, a professor at Harvard Medical School and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (a think tank), has expressed his disdain for free-market medicine and his "love" for Great Britain's government-run health-care system, while advocating health-care rationing and using the health-care system to redistribute wealth.
The directorship of CMS normally requires confirmation by the Senate, which currently has a 59-member majority of President Obama's party (counting Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Connecticut Independent who caucuses with Senate Democrats).
Obama initially sent Dr. Berwick's nomination to the Senate in April, where it was assigned to the Senate Finance Committee chaired by Sen. Max Baucus, the Montana Democrat, who had worked closely with the Obama White House in developing the national health-care law that President Obama signed in March. Baucus had not yet scheduled a confirmation hearing for Dr. Berwick.
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