Marathon Pundit: McConnell statement on appointment of fan of British-style health care rationing to lead CMS

"Excellent health care is by definition redistributional. Britain, you chose well."
Donald Berwick, 2008.

For the last year I've been writing about atrocities committed by Britain's government-run health care agency, the National Health Service. You will sleep poorly tonight when you learn that Donald Berwick, who fawns over the NHS, was just named to lead, in a recess appointment, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

From a press release from the office of Mitch McConnell:

McConnell On Berwick Recess Appointment

'The mere possibility of allowing the American people the opportunity to hear what he intends to do with their health care is evidently reason enough for this Administration to sneak him through without public scrutiny.'

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made the following statement Tuesday regarding the White House recess appointment of Donald Berwick to be Director of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS):

As if shoving a trillion dollar government takeover of health care down the throat of a disapproving American public wasn't enough, apparently the Obama Administration intends to arrogantly circumvent the American people yet again by recess appointing one of the most prominent advocates of rationed health care to implement their national plan.

Democrats haven't scheduled so much as a committee hearing for Donald Berwick but the mere possibility of allowing the American people the opportunity to hear what he intends to do with their health care is evidently reason enough for this Administration to sneak him through without public scrutiny.

Just over three months after passage of this misguided law, with Americans' worst fears about it being realized every day, the fact that this administration won't allow the man charged with implementing the president's plan to cut $500 billion out of Medicare to testify about his plans for the care of our nation's seniors is truly outrageous.