“Is Your Life
Death Panel Approved? “
Been thinking about that. If the obuma nazi death panels are willing to kill the elderly by the tens of thousands, it would be fair to kill the death panelists one-by-one in the most horrible and cruel manner possible.
The Rationer-in-Chief
http://blog.heritage.org/2010/07/07/morning-bell-the-rationer-in-chief/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell
Dr. Berwick said of Britain’s health care system: “Cynics beware, I am romantic about the National Health Service; I love it.” And his love for Britain’s health care system is not in spite of its rationing, but because of it. In 2009 Dr. Berwick told Biotechnology Healthcare: “NICE is extremely effective and a conscientious and valuable knowledge-building system. ... The decision is not whether or not we will ration care - the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open.”
Other links that back up the veracity of this story:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article4040146.ece
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/magazine/19healthcare-t.html
The fact that the White House chose to empower Dr. Berwick by recess appointment is particularly audacious. The recess appointment power was intended to be used for occasions when the Senate is out for moths at a time. The Senate is currently out of session for just 11 days. Worse, the Senate majority has never even scheduled a hearing so that Dr. Berwick’s rationing views could be given an “open” forum. In fact, Dr. Berwick has not even returned Senators’ written questionnaires. The White House defends the move by claiming “there’s no time to waste with Washington game-playing.” But then why did the Obama administration wait until April 2010, a full 15 months after President Obama was sworn into office, to nominate Dr. Berwick?
Is it because they did not want Dr. Berwick’s well known and public support for rationing health care to affect the debate over Obamacare?
In a 2005 interview with Health Affairs, Dr. Berwick said: “(G)overnment is an extraordinarily important player in the American health care scene, and it has inescapable duties with respect to improvement of care, or we’re not going to get improved care. Government remains a major purchaser. ... So as CMS goes and as Medicaid goes, so goes the system.” And that was before Obamacare gave far reaching new powers to government bureaucrats.
In June of 2009, President Obama told the American Medical Association that “identifying what works is not about dictating what kind of care should be provided.” Moreover, the president has assured the public time and again that the government will not get between patients and their doctors. His nomination of Don Berwick for Director of CMS, however, tells a different story.
The Berwick Chronicles:
VIDEO: Donald Berwick, “We must redistribute wealth” :
http://blog.eyeblast.tv/2010/07/flashback-donald-berwick-we-must-redistribute-wealth/
VIDEO: Obama’s new appointee to head Medicare, Don Berwick waxing poetic on Britain’s NHS :
http://www.institute.nhs.uk/nhs_live/events/previous_events.html?utm_source=newsletterjuly08&utm_medium=email&utm_term=nhslivevideos
‘Death panels’ were an overblown claim – until now :
http://dailycaller.com/2010/05/27/death-panels-were-an-overblown-claim-until-now/