{"id":5583,"date":"2010-06-04T16:12:05","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T20:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5583"},"modified":"2010-06-04T16:12:05","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T20:12:05","slug":"so-why-didnt-you-stay-in-britain-dr-berwick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5583\/so-why-didnt-you-stay-in-britain-dr-berwick\/","title":{"rendered":"So Why Didn&#8217;t You STAY in Britain, Dr. Berwick?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Donald Berwick, the Obama Administration&#8217;s nominee to oversee the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, once <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB20001424052748703340904575285034002114118.html#mod=todays_us_front_section\" target=\"_blank\">praised Britain at the expense of America<\/a> by saying, &#8220;at last a nation where healthcare is a right and carrying a semi-automatic machine gun is a privilege, instead of the other way around.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Berwick had worked with Britain&#8217;s National Health Service, and callously wrote in 2002 that &#8220;most people who have serious pain do not need advanced methods &#8211; they just need the morphine and counseling that have been available for centuries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, the Obama Administration said that Dr. Berwick&#8217;s comments were &#8220;taken out of context&#8221; in attempting to sweep the rising controversy under the rug.\u00a0 The statements, however, speak for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Get a good look at the potential future under ObamaCare, America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Donald Berwick, the Obama Administration&#8217;s nominee to oversee the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, once praised Britain at the expense of America by saying, &#8220;at last a nation where healthcare is a right and carrying a semi-automatic machine gun is a privilege, instead of the other way around.&#8221; Dr. Berwick had worked with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1353,12,465,24,35,42],"class_list":["post-5583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-berwick","tag-health-care","tag-health-care-reform","tag-obama","tag-obamacare","tag-sebelius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5585,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583\/revisions\/5585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}