Rationing Advocate Berwick Gets Health Coverage for Life
And so does his wife. Thanks to a special deal he worked out with the charity of which he was the CEO.
This means the fellow "recess-appointed by President Obama to head Medicare and Medicaid . . . , a well-known advocate of health care rationing and admirer of Britain's National Health Service," will not "have to deal with the anxieties created by limited access to care and the extent of coverage," writes Byron York at Beltway Confidential.
Does that make Berwick and wife "healthcare fat cats"?
This special benefit "undoubtedly would . . . have been a topic of questioning had Berwick gone through the normal course of Senate confirmation," York concludes. "But the recess appointment avoided all that."
You see, healthcare, like Obama, is just too big to be questioned. And who needs checks and balances and a whole lotta questions, anyway? Sometimes those things are just capitalist distractions, maybe even racist, in case you didn't know.
Besides, we should be thankful. Berwick isn't just from Washington, he's from Harvard. And he's here to help.
