Darth Berwick?(OK, ummm, I know ... this was just an attempt at a Darth Vader + Dr. Donald Berwick merge... sue me)
Remember that ol' "death panel" remark by Sarah Palin last year (from a Facebook post no less) and all the leftist whup-dee-doo, waa waaa-ing hooooooopla about it?
Stuart Schwartz at American Thinker points out this Obamster appointed Dr. Berwick IS THE DARTH VADER of the death panel! Sarah Palin, momma grizzly, was correct all along.
"Darth Vader is out of the closet...and we have Sarah Palin to thank."
"The intrepid crusader from the north cut to the heart of Obamacare a year ago, slashing through the professor-speak and government gobbledygook with a searing summary on Facebook of its bottom line: "death panels."
With those words, the grounds for debate had shifted, the mainstream media ideological blackout was circumvented, and now, although it may have been Obama's new head of Medicare, Harvard's Dr. Donald Berwick, who stepped on the shuttle at Boston's Logan International Airport, it is Darth Vader who has exited at Reagan National.
Darth Vader -- really? The man responsible for the death of a gazillion inhabited worlds, through whom the evil Emperor Palpatine -- described as " a middle-aged politician ... who gains power through deception and treachery"...sound familiar? -- sought to enslave the universe in the fictional Star Wars saga?
Surely, an exaggeration!
Yes, and deliberately so, for Berwick starts off his gig as head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid as an enthusiastic proponent of, as one British media commentator noted, a system that routinely denies "some poor suffering victim a remedy that is available in other countries."
At the same time, it views the elderly as simply less worthy of care, an expendable segment of the population for whom doctors and heart specialists provide less treatment past the official "cut-off" of 65 years, a British health research journal documented. "
"In the end, it is about power. Donald Berwick and Barack Obama, Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine want to dictate the care you can and can't have. Berwick, for example, calls ultrasounds and cesarean sections a "form of assault and battery."
Under Obamacare, he (through his rationing bureaucracy), not you or your doctor, decides whether you have a procedure. This is nothing new -- the political systems and policy bureaucracies Berwick and Obama seek to emulate have been doing it with disastrous results for individuals for years (e.g., England, Cuba, the old Soviet Union, Hitler's Germany).
As one senior staff member at Berwick's base in the Harvard School of Public Health has put it so eloquently in his blogs and books, we will do away with a Constitution and government that are the "enemy of the working class."
Read the full article at American Thinker here.
More about this guy's ideas on health care RATIONING at Investor's Business Daily about "The president's one-man death panel".
"Health Care: The president recess-appoints a fan of rationing and Britain's National Health Service to direct one-third of American health care. Why does the administration want his views hidden from scrutiny?
'The decision is not whether or not we will ration care — the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open." That's what Dr. Donald Berwick, President Obama's nominee to head the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, told a National Institutes of Health publication a year ago, when he was just president and CEO of the Institute for Health Care Improvement."
"Donald Berwick is a one-man death panel," said David O'Steen, executive director of the National Right to Life Committee. "While Americans may not remember the agency he heads, he will quickly become known as Obama's rationing czar."
Berwick has opined: "We can make a sensible social decision and say, 'Well, at this point, to have access to a particular additional benefit (new drug or medical intervention) is so expensive that our taxpayers have better use for those funds."
Sounds like denial of care to us.
Berwick's medical views also fit in well with Obama's stated goal of transforming America through the redistribution of wealth."
Ms. Palin was correct - you betcha!
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