Berwick To Oversee Obamacare Rationing

When the many critics of Obamacare, including SpeakNowAmerica and SpeakNowConservatives, warned that it would bring  rationing of treatments, medications and research into new procedures, Barack Hussein Obama said to the American Medical Association (June 15, 2009) that this rationing charge was a "fear tactic."

In July 2009, Obama said flat out: "I don't believe that government can or should run health care" (firstthings.com, May 31, 2010).

Then in May of this year, Obama nominated Dr. Donald Berwick, a professor at Harvard Medical School, to head Health and Human Services' Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) - the most powerful health-care position. As Hal Scherz underlines (RealClearPolitics.com, May 26): "CMS covers over 100 million Americans, has an annual $800 billion budget that is larger than the Defense Department's and is the second-largest insurance company in the world."

Berwick is enthusiastically, openly candid in his support of Britain's socialistic National Health Service. In a 2008 speech to British physicians, our new health czar said: "I am romantic about National Health Service. I love it (because it is) 'generous, hopeful, confident, joyous and just.'"

That "just" National Health Care Service decides which care can be too costly for the government to pay. It’s a real-time decider of life-or-death outcomes is the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). Here is how "nicely" it works, described by Michael Tanner, senior fellow and health-care expert at the Cato Institute (where I, too, am a senior fellow):

"It acts as a comparative-effectiveness tool for the National Health Care Service, comparing various treatments and determining whether the benefits the patients receives - SUCH AS PROLONGED LIFE - are cost-efficient for the government" (lifenews.com, May 27).

Listen to our very own decider of how the Obama administration will lower our national debt by cutting inefficient health-care costs. After declaring his ardent romantic attachment to the British system, Berwick said: "All I need to do to rediscover the romance is to look at health care in my own country." He will, of course, be too busy to attend the funerals of the sacrificial Americans whose lives - not only those of the elderly - may thereby be cut short.

By then, Berwick will be involved in the government-controlled health of more than 100 million Americans and - notes Michael Tanner - "Maybe those worries about death panels weren't so crazy after all."

Obama lied to America on health care rationing.  His plan from the beginning was for Obamacare to ration care to Americans.  Obama put Donald Berwick in the position while the Senate was on recess.  Obama didn’t want hearings on Berwick.  He didn’t want Obamacare and its death panels in the news again. 

Obama has the opinion Americans are too ignorant to remember what he has done.  Election 2010 is important America.  We can stop Obama’s socialist destruction of America.

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