Posted on 07/06/2010 9:13:35 PM PDT by Nachum
When the White House announced Dr. Donald Berwick as President Obama's choice to lead the $800 billion Medicare and Medicaid agency in April, officials hailed his long list of credentials, including current roles as a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health.
"He is also a pediatrician, adjunct staff in the Department of Medicine at Boston's Children's Hospital ..." the White House announcement of the nomination of Dr. Berwick to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) states.
But 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, The Washington Times has learned.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
$900 grand a year to talk smack about capitalism. Not bad.
The list, ping
Just another government leech sucking the blood from those who actually produce wealth.
Just one more disgusting lie among so many.
Say what you will about him but he’s still more qualified than the guy who appointed him.
That disqualifies him in my opinion. Those institutions are fever swamps of liberal utopians and nanny-staters.
Well, yeah. Berwick was born here.
That isn't saying much.
This guy is going to be the architect of the “Death Panel”.
“This recess appointment is an insult to the American people,’’ Senator John Barrasso, a Wyoming Republican, said. “Dr. Berwick is a self-professed supporter of rationing health care, and he won’t even have to explain his views to the American people in a hearing. Once again, President Obama has made a mockery of his pledge to be accountable and transparent.’’
And Senator Pat Roberts, Republican of Kansas, added: “Once again, the Obama administration is going behind closed doors out of fear the American people will learn that Dr. Berwick plans to use rationing as a cost-cutting tool to achieve the billions of dollars in cuts to Medicare called for in the health care reform bill.’’
Not much different from Kagan, who only has two years’ experience in actually practicing law (as a junior associate).
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