Daniel Henninger Explains Berwick Problem; It Is A BIG one!

In "Berwick: Bigger than Kagan" Mr. Henninger explains with disgust the maneuver of BHO to get this British National Health Service fan as the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). His last three paragraphs summarize the problem clearly:


"Barack Obama, Donald Berwick and the rest may fancy themselves philosopher kings who know what we need without the need to inform or persuade us first. That's not how it works here. That is Sen. Baucus's point."[The Democratic chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Max Baucus, was taken aback at the end-around: "Senate confirmation of presidential appointees is an essential process prescribed by the Constitution that serves as a check on executive power.]

It should be clear why Berwick is bigger than Kagan. We need a large public debate over these views, over what Mr. Obama has said his health plan would and would not do. We need to find out if every Democrat in Congress and every Democrat writing newspaper columns and blogs agrees with Dr. Berwick about clinical and individual autonomy and about leaders with plans.

Then we need to build an election around whether we want to go down the road Dr. Berwick has planned for us, or start dismantling the one that President Obama paved through Congress on a partisan vote."


Read Mr. Berwick's comments in Mr. Henninger column and make your own decision. It is truly disgusting!