WE JUST GOT ONE GIANT STEP CLOSER TO SOCIAL MEDICINE WITH DONALD BERWICK!
Posted on 07/20/2010 by Michael Mahfood
MEET DR. DONALD BERWICK, I PROMISE YOU WILL RUE THE DAY YOU DID!
President Obama used his executive recess appointment powers to appoint Dr. Donald Berwick to head the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. And this is the most serious affront to our freedom from socialism yet. THIS IS THE MOST SERIOUS AFFRONT TO OUR FREEDOM FROM SOCIALISM YET! Please, please read on...
This is a the definition of a recess appointment: “The President shall have power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.”
But folks this is even more sinister and evil then usual and so evil in it’s intent that it bears exposing. President Obama nominated Dr. Berwick on April 19, 2010, and appointed him under his recess appointment authority on July 7, 2010, during an 11-day Senate intrasession recess. Dr. Berwick, an avowed messenger and advocate of socialized medicine, as you will read, was sworn in on Monday. Get the timing here? The Senate was on an 11-day recess, not summer, but 11 days and President Obama appointed Dr. Berwick when he knew he stood no chance even, geneva;"> with his own party of clearing confirmation. This gives the President and Dr. Berwick months and months to put their plan into action.
THERE IS A GOOD AND LOGICAL AND SAFE REASON FOR SENATE CONFIRMATIONS!
Daniel Henninger an astute writer for the Wall Street Journal has termed this quiet, under-the-cover type of an appointment as “more important to the direction of the country than Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court." He suggests correctly that at least her decisions are and can be tempered by nine competing minds.
Something is very wrong when even Democrats make mention and object in public to something underhanded like this.
"I'm troubled that, rather than going through the standard nomination process, Dr. Berwick was recess-appointed," said Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, Montana Democrat. The Senate confirmation process, he added, is a check on executive power and "ensures that crucial questions are asked of the nominee - and answered."
"The American people have a right to know about Berwick's background, his past statements supporting rationing and government-run health care, and any potential conflicts of interest. All of that is hidden when the confirmation process is circumvented," Senator Charles Grassley said”.
In what is perhaps the single greatest threa t to our independence in the matter of health care, in what may be the crowning blow, we now have a man who will lead Medicare and Medicade and dictate policies that are the leading indicators for all healthcare to follow and basically espouses socialistic values in his philosophies. Lest you take my word for it, I am going to quote from him directly and you will see why President Obama did not wan t him going through a confirmation hearing. Here are just some quotes from Dr. Berwick’s previous interviews and speeches as reported in the Wall Street Journal Thursday July 15, 2010, Page A15. This is just too horrible to have been embellished -so accurately quoting the sources are important if you, my readers are to be pro-armed on this issue. I took the liberty of underlining and my comments are in italic green.
“I cannot believe that the individual health care consumer can enforce through choice the proper configuration of a system as massive and complex as healthcare. That is for leaders to do."
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Meaning….we are too dumb, too simple to speak up and make our own decisions
“A progressive policy regime will control and rationalize financing-control supply”
Meaning…elderly care will take second place to younger people’s care
“Health care is a common good-single payer, speaking and buying for the common good”
Meaning…There just needs to be one insurer, the government with socialized medicine
“The unaided human mind and acts of the individual, cannot assure excellence.”
Meaning…Back to the we are too dumb thing again
"One over-demanded service is prevention: annual physicals, screenings, tests, and other ,measures that supposedly help catch diseases early"
Oh-oh, did he run this one by his new boss? He is saying let the chips fall where they may.
Folks, this is serious. He has the time before his non-confirmation is challenged to do real harm to us!
President Obama and Donald Berwick are not logician, they are not philosophers and they are not kings and they cannot and should not be put in a position to decide who lives or dies “for the common good”.
The mid terms are 105 days away. You have to vote, you have to be active, you have to protect yourself and most-importantly protect your children and their children to come.
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If we allow anyone in baseball, including any so called Hispanic “SuperStars” to dictate to MLB that it move the 2011 All-Star games away from Phoenix because of their newly enacted immigration legislation, then we should hang our heads in shame. That means that a few overpaid baseball players, for God sake are trying to get us to turn our back on one of our own…one of OUR OWN UNITED STATES in favor of ILLIGEGAL Mexican aliens. Have we all gone mad?
If there is anyone in this country that shouldn’t fall for this, if there is one man who should hold the line it ought to be Bud Selig. Bud...this could be your finest hour!
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We All Need To Pray That The Pendulum Is Swinging
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday July 20th shows that 27% of the nation's voters strongly approve of the way that President Obama is performing his role as president and 44% strongly disapprove. What in the world are the other folks waiting for to make up their minds?
Do you wonder why confidence in our President and his decision makers has sunk this low? Allow me to enlighten you. But first, this colorful little graphic that I have become so fond of…
Let’s see if we can count the reasons why.
The Obama administration sued one of our United States for protecting their border, OUR BORDER. But wait there’s more!
- They passed health care reform. Remember you can keep your own Doctor and insurance.
- They swore no tax increases if you make under $250k.
- They passed insurance reform…they really put the lid on those high executive bonuses.
- They passed a stimulus bill that has yet to stimulate employment anywhere.
- They bailed out and then took over the auto industry, no knowledge, no skill…. just did it.
- They extended un-employment benefits. They swore the Stimulus would create jobs. If that is so then why do we keep extending unemployment benefits?
- They gave money away if your car was old. Damn, mine wasn’t
- They gave money away if your fridge was old….ditto.
Despite the fact that then and even more strongly now -the majority of voters didn’t and don’t want them. What was it that Speaker Pelosi said? Something like, lets get the health bill passed so we can all see what’s in it?
Now as we see what is in the bill we find out that we probably can’t keep our own doctor and our own insurance company and here is how they manipulated us, the citizens, on that score. Effective in October the administration has made screening for several maladies mandatory and with no co-pay…in other terms free. Reckon your insurance company will go along with that? No, but the government ordained health insurance companies will. Care to guess which insurance providers will be getting a whole bunch of new customers real quick? Right from the Whitehouse Press Release here is the verbiage:
“The White House on Wednesday issued new rules requiring health insurance companies to provide free coverage for dozens of screenings, laboratory tests and other types of preventive care,"
They did this by fiat! Perhaps I should say a fatwa. By snapping their fingers. No law, no congress no hearings. Just the implied power given to them broadly by the sweeping healthcare reform THAT WE DIDN’T WANT THAT THEY SHOVED DOWN OUR THROATS. Simply by saying that all insurance companies will do so. Has it occurred to anyone at all that this is simply illegitimate on its face?
On July 19, 2010 Rasmussen reported this:
Health Care Update: Fifty-four percent (54%) now say the Health Care bill passed by Congress will be bad for the country. Just 33% believe it will be good for the country. You think?
The underlying current is this. Here is the unspoken and silent message to the existing health care insurers: Gentlemen, look what happened to finance and the auto industry. The Health Insurance Industry may smile and say Yes your Highness, but you know that they have to and they will pass the cost on to everyone -by simply raising premiums to cover the freebies. This is yet another baby step toward socialism. By the for-profit companies being forced to raise their price even higher they become more and more quickly non-competitive and the government owned and run health insurance agency just comes in and sweeps us all up. The Whitehouse estimates that in three years 88 million folks will have free health screenings. Free to who?
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THE SURVEY SAID....Looks like we are sticking with Arizona and more states than not would vote to do the same thing....
REGARDING THE LAWSUIT FILED BY THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT AGAINST THE STATE OF ARIZONA…WHO SHOULD OR WILL PROTECT OUR BORDER STATES FROM THE FLOOD OF DANGEROUS ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
YES....I agree that Arizona Should Be Able To Defend Itself With The full Help of The US Government: 68%
NO....I believe that the State of Arizona should yield to the US Government and allow them to take charge.: 13%
ALTERNATIVE POSITION....We should shoot every illegal alien on site just after they cross the US border...I figure we won't have to do that very often: 17%
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