Posted on 07/07/2010 8:57:27 AM PDT by blog.Eyeblast.tv
Today, President Obama officially made Donald Berwick his recess appointment to be the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
In a 2008 while speaking on the British health care system in the UK, Berwick said wealthy individuals must redistribute their wealth to those less fortunate for health care funding. Also during this speech, he told those in attendance that he opposes free markets.
“Any health care funding plan that is just equitable civilized and humane must, must redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent health care is by definition redistributional.”
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Fine, let’s take all the money the Rat party has and give it away.
OK, fine, let’s first see the bastard Soros redistribute some of HIS. As if that’ll ever happen.
Get 0prah to cough up a billion or two.
Take quality care from you and give to illegal immigrants
..rationing, death panels, end of DR patient relationship. Government mandated level of care.
This administration attacks an any part of US that is exceptional and enhances quality of life.
Medicare by its very nature is a redistributive program. Any conservative who opposes redistribution of wealth cannot honestly support the continuance of Medicare.
Why Don’t we try redistributing “Effort” for a change.
and natural rights of the individual can go to ____.
Socialism is a fancy name for organized crime. The Communist thieves ought to be shoved against a wall and shot.
So what are you saying? This is a good appointment?
This indisputably qualifies as "redistribution of wealth"...there is no fictional construct by which it can be termed "insurance" as there is no connection between premiums paid in and benefits received.
Therefore any administrator of Medicare is a redistributor of wealth. Berwick is just a little more explicit about it.
He is at least honest about the fact that Medicare as currently constituted cannot survive. As compared to some conservatives and tea-partiers who don't want to confront the nature of Medicare and the deficits looming in its future.
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