Obama Bypasses Senate For New Medicare Czar That Supports Rationing Care

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100707/ap_on_bi_ge/us_obama_health_care_appointment_13

 

So?

Bush did it too, especially with Bolton to the UN.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Recess_appointments_made_by_President_George_W._Bush

So did Clinton, 140 vs Bush's 106:

http://www.latimes.com/sns-ap-recess-appointments-glance,1,3173670.story

This is really a non-starter.

 

http://www.thefoxnation.com/preside...gime-recess-appoints-marxist-run-death-panels

President Barack Obama today circumvented the Senate confirmation process by granting a recess appointment to Dr. Donald Berwick to be director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the federal agency that runs Medicare and Medicaid.


Berwick, a professor at Harvard Medical School and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (a think tank), has expressed his disdain for free-market medicine and his “love” for Great Britain’s government-run health-care system, while advocating health-care rationing and using the health-care system to redistribute wealth.


Berwick is known for his staunch defense of Great Britain’s government-run National Health System (NHS)—which he has hailed as a model for the world-- and his penchant for comparing the U.S. health-care system unfavorably to the British system. Read more...