Rationing Health Care? You Bet Your Life!

Senate Democrats are rushing to confirm the new head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services--well ahead of the timetable most Republicans expected. Perhaps part of the reason is the controversy set to ensue over the administration's pick. As Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wy.) said, "President Obama didn't mention that the new Medicare director, someone he's recently named... is planning to ration care." Or, as Berwick has said, "The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open."

If you thought all the talk about "death panels" was conservative hogwash, think again. An anti-market socialist, Berwick once decried the U.S. health system as "trapped in the darkness of private enterprise." With Berwick at the helm, Medicare and Medicaid programs are expected to cut billions of dollars in services. And why not? According to the socialist model that Berwick admires, it's much cheaper to let sick people die.

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