{"id":6006,"date":"2010-07-07T11:37:19","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T15:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6006"},"modified":"2010-07-07T12:38:21","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T16:38:21","slug":"health-care-rationing-proponent-to-get-recess-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6006\/health-care-rationing-proponent-to-get-recess-appointment\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Care Rationing Proponent Gets Recess Appointment to Head Up Medicare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/69055\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bypassing Republicans eager to grill an administration official over the new health care law, President Barack Obama is planning to appoint the head of Medicare and Medicaid without Senate hearings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obama intends to use a so-called recess appointment to put Dr. Donald Berwick in charge of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a White House official said Tuesday night.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As Freedom Line readers are aware, Dr. Berwick is a self-proclaimed health care <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5461\/obama-taps-self-proclaimed-rationing-enthusiast-to-run-medicare\/\" target=\"_blank\">rationing enthusiast<\/a> who openly supports wealth redistribution schemes and a completely government-run single payer health care system.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Indeed,\u00a0in an interview just last year Berwick said, &#8220;The decision is not whether or not we will ration care &#8212; the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open.&#8221;\u00a0 And in 2002, Dr. Berwick <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5583\/so-why-didnt-you-stay-in-britain-dr-berwick\/\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a>,\u00a0&#8220;most people who have serious pain do not need advanced methods \u2013 they just need the morphine and counseling that have been available for centuries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Seniors beware.\u00a0 This is the guy who is now in charge of your health care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press\u00a0reports: Bypassing Republicans eager to grill an administration official over the new health care law, President Barack Obama is planning to appoint the head of Medicare and Medicaid without Senate hearings. &#8220;Obama intends to use a so-called recess appointment to put Dr. Donald Berwick in charge of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1515,1514,12,1018],"class_list":["post-6006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-centers-for-medicare-and-medicaid-services","tag-dr-donald-berwick","tag-health-care","tag-recess-appointment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6006","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6006"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6010,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6006\/revisions\/6010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}