The Berwick Chronicles

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The Berwick Chronicles

Berwick Pretends to Change Spots on Rationing

Obama resubmitted his pick to run the Medicare and Medicaid programs to the Senate on Monday, two months after bypassing the body with a recess appointment- Donald Berwick

Berwick-Linked Advocacy Group Spearheaded ‘Torture’ Campaign against American Officials- Obama has appointed Donald Berwick, a board member of Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), to head Medicare. While participating in an EU-funded project on “documenting” torture charges, PHR took aim at America.

Democrats Refuse to Hold Medicare Rationing Czar Hearing; Won't discuss Berwick

Berwick battle escalates: GOP introduces resolution calling recess appointment ‘abuse of power’

Obama, without fanfare, submitted Donald Berwick's name to the U.S. Senate Monday for confirmation as the top Medicare and Medicaid administrator.

"The Obama Administration's recess-appointed head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) -- and his staff aren't wasting a lot of time getting settled into their offices.  Already, Berwick, according to career employees at CMS, has begun looking at what resources are at his disposal to launch a wide-scale media and public relations offensive in support of Obamacare and his views on government-funded health care."

Donald Berwick, recess-appointed by President Obama to head Medicare and Medicaid, is a well-known advocate of health care rationing and admirer of Britain's National Health Service will receive health care benefits for life by the board of directors of the Institute for Health Care Improvement, a nonprofit health care charitable organization he created

White House senior adviser David Axelrod said it was “very clear” that President Barack Obama’s nomination of Dr. Donald Berwick to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services was going to be “dragged on and on” by Republicans, and with the “challenges” facing America’s health care system, it was “vitally important that we fill this position” without a Senate confirmation hearing.

White House recess-appointed Berwick after questions about $49M nonprofit group

VIDEO: Donald Berwick, "We must redistribute wealth"

VIDEO: Obama's new appointee to head Medicare, Don Berwick waxing poetic on Britain's NHS

Video Segments of Dr. Donald Berwick from the Documentary Money Driven Medicine

VIDEO: One Doctor's Crusade for Hospital Reform

Pro-Life Advocates Call Obama Pick Donald Berwick a One Man Death Panel

New health care rationer-in-chief suffers from ‘inattention to detail: Berwick Interview- I don’t feel like a leader, so it’s very hard for me to project myself into that situation. But inattention to detail is my biggest defect. I’m always leaning forward into something new. I can create a mess. Luckily, I have people who are willing to create the detail around the idea or, if they’re really smart, know which ideas to ignore.

In announcing the recess appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services -- and two other nominees -- today President Obama said in a statement that “It’s unfortunate that at a time when our nation is facing enormous challenges, many in Congress have decided to delay critical nominations for political purposes.”

Obama to Make Recess Appointment of CMS Administrator Republicans Attacking as 'Expert on Rationing'

The Rationer-in-Chief

The White House blames the Republicans for the use of "Recess Appointment" for Berwick

Obama Recess Appoints Rationing Advocate Donald Berwick to Medicare Post Washington, DC -- President Barack Obama used a recess appointment today to name rationing advocate Donald Berwick to become the director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Opposition Begins to Mount Against Donald Berwick--"The wrong man, at the wrong time, for the wrong job"

Berwick: Obama appointed another nominee for an influential government position who is pro-abortion, pro-euthanasia, and pro-health care rationing

Obama nominee to run Medicare, Dr. Berwick, hasn't seen a patient in years. And the two Harvard  professor positions listed on his White House  biography as well as another position as a senior scientist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston are essentially "honorary professorships," which require two or three seminars or meetings a year.  Dr. Berwick disclosed holding more than a dozen current positions on a government ethics filing, though one full-time paying job: his 40-hours-per-week position as the president and chief executive of the nonprofit Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), where he earned nearly $900,000 in salary, bonus and deferred compensation last year.

Sebelius: Rationing Advocate is ‘Absolutely Right Leader At This Time’ to Run Medicare

Obama Names Rationing Czar to Run Medicare Obama’s nominee to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which runs Medicare, is a strong supporter of the government-run health care system in Britain

Media Matters Quotes Infanticide Supporter to Defend Health Rationing

How Donald Berwick will run your health care

An Interview With Dr. Donald Berwick: 'We Need To Have More Consequences In The Health Care System'

Donald Berwick speaks up

‘Death panels’ were an overblown claim – until now

Donald Berwick "Curing the health care system"

Obama Appoints Marxist to Head Health Industry in U.S.

Donald Berwick says our nation's world-class hospitals and doctors are delivering health care that is unsafe and unreliable.

Who is Dr. Berwick... "Berwick is famous in the health-care system for advocating its destruction."

Dr. Berwick's Radical Agenda

Berwick: “You’re looking at the cream of crap. The system is so broken,”

Donald Berwick: the $1 trillion health care disaster in waiting

Donald Berwick hearts the NHS

Donald Berwick: Will we ration health care with our eyes open?

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Now that the Obama regime is attempting to shove their "SS Man" of Medicare down out throats, it might be useful to look at the history.