By: Trevor Loudon
New Zeal
In April, President Barack Obama nominated Dr. Donald Berwick to be Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Berwick currently serves as President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and is a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health.
“Dr. Berwick has dedicated his career to improving outcomes for patients and providing better care at lower cost,” President Obama said. “That’s one of the core missions facing our next CMS Administrator, and I’m confident that Don will be an outstanding leader for the agency and the millions of Americans it serves.”
Berwick is also a partisan of state run health care, an advocate of government re-distribution of wealth and an ardent socialist, unless he was lying through his teeth when this clip was filmed.
The UK has a 5 year survival rate on breast cancer one half ours. Prostate cancer one third ours.
They stop cancer screenings at age 70. Cute. If you are 70 and have pneumonia there the surivial rate is about one third ours. Enough said in my view.
See the book Lives at Risk from John Goodman Ph.D. National Center for Policy Analysis. Examines national health care in the English speaking countries. Rationing is the word.