EconInvestor

Obama’s recess appointment of Donald Berwick as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is very troubling as seen in the article: President Obama to Make Recess Appointment of CMS Administrator Republicans Attacking as ‘Expert on Rationing’.   

There are two quotes in particular that stand out.

First, “Berwick said society makes decisions about rationing all the time, and that the ‘decision is not whether or not we will ration care — the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open. And right now, we are doing it blindly.’” 

Whatever happened to the “invisible hand” behind free enterprise?  The same criticism given above can be leveled at ANY economic activity. “Ration with our eyes open” means government doing the rationing rather than the market. Why would we expect the government to be more efficient?  What about personal choice?

Second,  “He [the appointee] has also praised the UK’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), which he said had ‘developed very good and very disciplined, scientifically grounded, policy-connected models for the evaluation of medical treatments from which we ought to learn.’ “

How many horror stories do we have to show about the UK health care system to disprove this statement?  I’m going to start a collection and put it on the web.

This is only the beginning.

In case you missed it: ObamaCare threatens your health plan. This is only the beginning.