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  • Donald Berwick won’t answer critics0

    • October 1, 2010

    Via Human Events, Donald Berwick, head of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services,  “won’t, engage critics, grant interviews, or testify before Congress about his views on health-care rationing.”

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  • Health care “reform” undermines doctor-patient relationship0

    • September 27, 2010

    Beth Haynes writes: The new healthcare law has multiple provisions which disrupt individualized decision-making between the physician and patient. This is no accident. It is by concerted design. She provides a few examples and concludes: These health care policy makers believe the source of our health care problems stem from the autonomous decisions made by […]

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  • Medicare head Donald Berwick: You’re a pawn0

    • July 22, 2010

    In the American Spectator David Catron points out a disturbing quote from Medicare & Medicaid Services head Donald Berwick is.
    Berwick’s view of rationing is, in fact, the opposite of [Paul]  Ryan’s. The latter believes it should be driven by the informed decisions of consumers in a free market, while […]

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  • Medicare head Donald Berwick: rationing for thee, not for me0

    • July 21, 2010

    David Catron points out more ruling class elitism from Medicare & Medicaid head Donald Berwick:
    Berwick praised the heavy-handed rationing methods of Britain’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and said, “The decision is not whether or not we will ration care; the decision is whether we will ration with our […]

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  • Donald Berwick’s Five-Year Plan v. the iPhone0

    • July 15, 2010

    Paul Howard and David Gratzer, MD write
    Last month, Apple released its new iPhone, a faster and more powerful version of its ever popular computer-phone. It’s a remarkable device – particularly remarkable given that its machine ancestors were large and expensive, often filling whole buildings yet able to crunch fewer numbers than […]

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  • Obama appoints Donald Berwick: Health Care Rationer-in-Chief0

    • July 8, 2010

    From Grace-Marie Turner at National Review (July 7):

    President Obama is making a huge end-run around the American people with his recess appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick.
    “This recess appointment is an insult to the American people,” said Sen. John Barrasso (R., Wyo.), a physician and leading Berwick opponent. “Dr. Berwick is a […]

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