British gov't-run health care fan tapped to run Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Since last summer I've been keeping an eye on Great Britan's National Health Service, which is in charge of the UK's government-run health care. A fan of the NHS is Donald Berwick, who is President Obama's nominee to run Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, who had this to say about it two years ago:

Any health care funding plan that is just equitable civilized and humane must, must redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent health care is by definition redistributional. Britain you chose well.

Take a look at my British ObamaCare links at the bottom of this post. You'll learn about unnecessary deaths, overpaid bureaucrats, rationing, "postal-code lotteries," blood-splattered wards, and even bats flying around a British hospital. In fairness to the UK, they didn't know what they were getting into when they veered left and took the path to socialized medicine six decades ago.

We should know better.

Related posts:

British ObamaCare update: Health care workers asked to rate Hitler on "coolness"
British ObamaCare update: Bureaucrats getting in the way of saving lives
British ObamaCare update: Fighting waste is not so easy
British ObamaCare update: Hero left to lie in own excrement
British ObamaCare update: Woman barred from surgery after seeing private doctor
British ObamaCare update: Basic surgeries being withheld to save money
British ObamaCare update: Bureaucracy spending up 50 percent
British ObamaCare update: Jobless bureaucrats still getting paid
British ObamaCare update: Guarantees to see GP in 48 hours
British ObamaCare update: Gov't run health service won't pay for girl's proper prosthetic legs
British ObamaCare update: Welsh hospitals meeting SIX MONTH wait time targets
British ObamaCare update: 80% told they had swine flu didn't have it
British ObamaCare update: Late cancer diagnosis kills 10,000 a year
British ObamaCare update: "Filthy, blood-splattered wards"
British ObamaCare update: Hundreds die at hospital because of slipshod care
British ObamaCare update: Whistleblowers silenced
British ObamaCare update: Age discrimination to be banned in three years
British ObamaCare update: Capricious bureaucrats deny cancer treatment
British ObamaCare update: Euthanasia by stealth
British ObamaCare update: Bats found flying in Scottish hospital
British ObamaCare update: Staff errors led to 5,700 cases of death or severe harm in six months

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