The Rationer-in-Chief Cometh

Once again, President Obama has gone behind the closed doors of recess appointments (more than Bush at this point), to appoint Donald Berwick administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Didn’t the president say his administration would be about transparency, from day one? I wonder why the closed doors?

The answer is simple, there is an agenda that needs to be advanced and the American people, if they knew anything about this new Rationer-in-Chief, would stand in the way of that agenda (something else the President said he wouldn’t do, starting day one). Granted, while electing Barack Obama as President wasn’t one of the brightest moments in our nation’s history, we have learned a few things. So, why would the American people have stood in the way of the President’s agenda?

In short, just be thankful your not old and/or sick, though we will all get there someday. Our President’s Healthcare Reform is all about control, through coverage, not care. Healthcare coverage lives and breaths on effective cost controls, not concern for the sick. As the costs of Obamacare start to rise, not fall as the President has said, and as the American people become more aware of the problems our national debt poses, President Obama needs a cost control/rationing tool to help him make his healthcare agenda work. What better person for that job than Mr. Donald Berwick.

Who is Mr. Donald Berwick, our new Rationer-in-Chief? Mr. Donald Berwick is a Harvard professor and pediatrician who has won many endorsements from most of the major medical societies. With that out of the way, who is Mr. Donald Berwick, really? Well, here is something he has said, “I am romantic about the NHS. I love it,” and “Most people who have serious pain do not need advanced methods; they just need the morphine and counseling that have been around for centuries.” Are you wondering what the NHS is, this organization that Mr. Donald Berwick is so romantically in love with? This next article really puts all the pieces of the puzzle together for us. However, before you read the article, let’s ask ourselves a question. Didn’t Barack Obama, when he was running for President, say in a debate, that if we wanted to know what he (Barak Obama) thought about certain issues, we could get a good idea by looking at those he has surrounded himself with? OK, here is a good idea of what the NHS is all about. NHS scandal: dying cancer victim was forced to pay.

Please don’t get sick.