Obama Appoints Radical Communist Pal to Head Medicare & Medicaid (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, July 7, 2010, 6:22 AM
Barack Obama appointed another communist, Donald Berwick, to head the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today. The president sidestepped a senate hearing by appointing this radical during a Congressional recess.
An excerpt from a 2008 speech by Donald Berwick, President Obama’s nominee to head the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, speaking to a British audience about why he favors government-run health care.
Berwick also published an article in 2008 to warning the Brits about free market forces.
CNS News reported:
The article, published in the July 26, 2008 issue of the BMJ, compared the U.S. health care system unfavorably to the British system, which Berwick said he was “romantic about.”
The article included a list of 10 suggestions for Britain’s National Health Service (NHS). One of these suggestions was:
“Please don’t put your faith in market forces [emphasis in original]. It’s a popular idea: that Adam Smith’s invisible hand would do a better job of designing care than leaders with plans can. I find little evidence that market forces relying on consumers choosing among an array of products, with competitors fighting it out, leads to the healthcare system you want and need. In the U.S., competition is a major reason for our duplicative, supply driven, fragmented care system.”
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CommieBlaster commented:
How Long Have We Been Telling You They’re Communists?
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Ruth commented:
Let the medical rationing begin.
Hopefully the voters who use Medicare and Medicaid will notice this nice Obama move of going around the officials elected to represent them. Ultimately it will effect all of us.
Bill H commented:
Was King Samir Shabazz unavailable?
Meg commented:
Will there even be any elections in November? Never thought I’d be asking that question!
redc1c4 commented:
“Was King Samir Shabazz unavailable?”
he refused to wear the white lab coat….. %-)
xxx commented:
Tyrant Lunatic Hussein, can’t wait till it dies and goes to hell as it will, took the back door on this one. The illegals in Los Angeles will not let the poor white or blacks into Medical hospitals, because they have it run by them and ripping off the billions of dollars the feds give them. They have new $50,000 cars when just months ago they crossed the boarder. LA has gone to Mexico. It’s sad b/c the white population here is too scared as the cops are now mostly Latinos who want their people not white to flood into LA and take the federal government’s money and then kill or kick out all the whites. LA RAZA has gone mainstreme.
befuddled commented:
awww poor ol obama, all his friends are communists and terrorists. if you hate america enough to trash her with every breath, somehow you can bet on obama showing up at your door to greet you with open arms. hmmm, wonder what that oprah chick is holding back.
liberals never tire of dishing out the same old, tired, foolhardy solutions. as long as it means seperating you from your wallet, they will never quit.
Andreas K. commented:
Meanwhile the NHS, which this morons is so romantic about, is collapsing.
They have to cut down on spending and they’re doing it by cutting down on funding treatment.
Paddy commented:
If you are approaching or over the age of 65 you can kiss your ass goodbye.
kansas commented:
Didn’t Obama formerly whine about recess appointments?
Plus, what good would Senate hearings do anyway. Who wants to see the Democrats grandstand and the Republoweinies fold?
Kenny Solomon commented:
Obama: “It’s unfortunate that at a time when our nation is facing enormous challenges, many in Congress have decided to delay critical nominations for political purposes,” President Obama said. “These recess appointments will allow three extremely qualified candidates to get to work on behalf of the American people right away. With more than 180 nominees still pending before the Senate, it’s my hope that my colleagues in Congress will agree to put politics aside and move forward on these vitally important positions.”
My take (and I said this on another site)……
It’s unfortunate at a time when our nation is facing enormous challenges in the middle of a Marxist Jihadi takeover, that these pieces of garbage are allowed to continue on and in truth, on a daily basis, exponentially increase their assault on our Constitution and YOUR freedom.
I’m not offering further comment, or I’ll become seriously dangerous.
KLS
Highlander commented:
What are Donald Berwick’s communist connections? I’m interested in knowing because I work in the Healthcare field and he is well regarded by many of my co-workers. I’d like to have some ammunition for future discussions. Is he a self-proclaimed communist in the ilk of Van Jones?
Don Rodrigo commented:
I think we should “ration” people like Dr. Berwick out of existence.
WSG commented:
Solution to government program:
expand government program
Why did the percent to GDP for health care spending only go up after the government became involved?
The government says that they are going to insure all people over 65. Medical research on treatments and medicines are shifted to concentrate on who? Who is responsible for the
“duplicative, supply driven, fragmented care system.”? I don’t suppose corporate welfare has anything to do with it. The government is so poor at solving problems because the politicians and bureaucrats have no mirrors.
Finncrisp commented:
This is a recess appontment; isn’t it over when the new congress convenes? I think he tapped this guy to get him a pension from us the taxpayers. What a creep.
bitterclinger commented:
I sincerely hope that all the media sycophants covering for The Once, are starting to sweat bullets about their parents’ pending medical doom. Wait. That implies they’d have to be smart enough to understand the damage they’re doing.
Granny commented:
The biggest problem with this is that seniors have NO choice but to be on Medicare unless they are independently wealthy. You must sign up for Medicare and turn over a big chunk of your social security retirement (which you PAY for as no-interest loans to the government over your entire working life) to boot or do without your Social Security entirely.
Freddy commented:
With the Democrats controlling the entire approval process, Obama’s claim that the Republicans were somehow stalling shows what a LIAR Obama is.
Rock commented:
I seem to remember many in support of the Health Care Reform Bill claimed rationing would not be a proponent of it. OK so why then is a Socialist loving supporter of rationing placed at the head of Medicare and Medicaid? Oh I forgot this regime is all about Socialism, silly me. Maybe I could trust this folly if those in DC where required to be equal participants in all the trash they have been jamming down our throats for the last few years. The only upside to all this, is now when anyone tries to defend this regime, we have a clear idea of the Socialist and useful idiots among us. Wake up Citizens anyone who holds paper from Harvard or any of the Ivy League training camps is in all likelihood a Socialist loving slug.
myohmy commented:
Sarah Palin is right. The death panel and rationing is coming to America. While democrats are saddling us with high taxes, we have unelected official like Berwick deciding who will get care and help dimwits redistribute wealth to their favorite constituents.
Wow commented:
FinncrispNo Gravatar
July 7th, 2010 | 2:40 pm | #20
No, I heard that he will hold that position until the end of 2011 and if they want him to continue he will then have to be confirmed. Meanwhile, he can do as he bloody well pleases, or as told.
Blue Collar Todd commented:
The Left was so emboldened after passing ObamaCare that the were asserting Marxist propositions in the public. This is just more of the same. But only they have the authority and knowledge to declare whether something is Marxist or not.
Joanne commented:
Yah, like Britain’s healthcare system is so great because government bureaucracy manages it. Just wait until America – with it’s huge population gets on the socialist healthcare bandwagon – it will be nothing more than population control.