Posted on 07/17/2012 6:15:10 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
As of 5 p.m. Tuesday, Mohammad N. Akhter will no longer be the District’s health director.
Officials said Dr. Akhter officially requested a yearlong leave of absence from Mayor Vincent C. Gray’s Cabinet so he can serve on a board charged with carrying out a key portion of President Obama’s health care reforms within the District.
By law, Dr. Akhter had to step aside from his job as director of the D.C. Department of Health so he could serve on the city’s Health Benefit Exchange Board. He followed through on those plans before his swearing-in Tuesday alongside six other appointees to the health exchange board, Mr. Gray’s spokesman, Pedro Ribeiro, said Monday.
.....A native of Pakistan, Dr. Akhter served as the District’s commissioner of public health from 1991 to 1994. He had been working as a professor for the Howard University College of Medicine when Mr. Gray selected him in January 2011 to lead the city's health department once more.
The District has moved aggressively to set up its health exchange, which is supposed to reduce costs and make insurance plans easier to understand. Its governing board will decide how it is set up in the coming year. Among its major considerations is whether to welcome all insurance plans into the exchange or to handpick providers that may participate, according to Wayne Turnage, director of the D.C. Department of Health Care Finance.
Jurisdictions that welcomed Mr. Obama’s reforms are working quickly on their respective exchanges, after the Supreme Court in June upheld most of the major provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010.....
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Oh great! Mohammad helping obummer with our health care policies........what could possibly go wrong for us?
Wasn’t Dr. Akhter a character in an Ed Wood movie?
We’ve lost our collective minds...
I understand this perfectly!
Who better to help set government policies for the Health Care death panels than a wacky paki named Mohammad?
So many of us keep forgetting the 2nd goal of progressive/Marxists/communists/socialist and that is after redistributing as much of the wealth as possible they have to do everything possible to reduce the world’s population.
Hence the liberals are virtually silent on China’s one child policy and as we all know they will support killing the unborn with their last dying breath (cannot come too soon).
Humans who they cannot not prevent by contraception or abortion, can be thinned out much earlier via end of life counseling aka death panels. Hell our own muslim president even is OK with abortions AFTER BIRTH. I wonder who gets to set the time limit for after birth abortions?
If only the president’s tramp mother had not bedded down with every communist who crossed her path the country would be much better off.
Anyone not too sure this administration will use race as one of the criteria for end of life counseling?
Romney may be very far from our ideal candidate but he could not possibly have the hatred in his heart for Americans that is contained in our evil president.
I understand this perfectly!
Who better to help set government policies for the Health Care death panels than a wacky paki named Mohammad?
So many of us keep forgetting the 2nd goal of progressive/Marxists/communists/socialist and that is after redistributing as much of the wealth as possible they have to do everything possible to reduce the world’s population.
Hence the liberals are virtually silent on China’s one child policy and as we all know they will support killing the unborn with their last dying breath (cannot come too soon).
Humans who they cannot not prevent by contraception or abortion, can be thinned out much earlier via end of life counseling aka death panels. Hell our own muslim president even is OK with abortions AFTER BIRTH. I wonder who gets to set the time limit for after birth abortions?
If only the president’s tramp mother had not bedded down with every communist who crossed her path the country would be much better off.
Anyone not too sure this administration will use race as one of the criteria for end of life counseling?
Romney may be very far from our ideal candidate but he could not possibly have the hatred in his heart for Americans that is contained in our evil president.
I’m not sure the libs ever had much of a functioning mind........
I’m not sure the libs ever had much of a functioning mind........
Eric—do you hear an echo in here?
You can say that again.
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