Dr. Donald Berwick - Medicare Czar: Elected to nothing, accountable to no one (except Obama)

Yes, everyone knows that George Bush recess-appointed John Bolton as U.N. ambassador. . .after a contentious Senate confirmation hearing.

Obama's choice to head Medicare - the Leftist, socialist free-market hating Dr. Donald Berwick (Harvard) didn't even get a hearing because Sen. Max Baucus, Senate Finance Chairman, knew that a Berwick hearing could not have stood the light of day.

Dr. Berwick is now our Rationer-in-Chief. In a 2008 speech to Britain's National Health Service on the occasion of its 60th Anniversary Berwick said this:

You could have protected the wealthy and the well, instead of recognizing that sick people tend to be poorer and that poor people tend to be sicker, and that any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized, and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition redistribution. Britain, you chose well.

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UPDATE: Berwick and wife exempt from crappy health care law he'll oversee!