President Obama's top Medicare official has resigned in the face of Republican pledges to block his confirmation in the Senate. Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator "Dr. Death Panel"
Donald M. Berwick notified colleagues Wednesday that he will step down Dec. 2, nearly a month before the expiration of his recess appointment.
The White House will nominate Marilyn Tavenner, Medicare's deputy administrator, as his replacement.
Berwick's critics have cited his statements about the need for health care to redistribute resources from the rich to the poor, and his favorable statements about the British health care system.
Berwick advocates cutting health costs by adopting some of the approaches of Great Britains National Health Services (NHS) and its National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE).
The NHS works so well for its citizens (sarc).
Conservative critics claim, "NICE decides which healthcare people will get and which they wont."
If it is rationed, then some get healthcare and some don't. Are those who are on the "right" side of this administration the benefactors of Obamacare? Will Obamacare become a vehicle for corruption the likes of which we have not seen before?
Marilyn Tavenner, on paper, seems to be less acceptable than Berwick.
Health care, the economy, national defense, immigration, jobs and everything else will not get better until this administration is out.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
