teapartysamurai
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Same reason I want to know the education level and job of someone who can actually think that the government wants to kill Americans.
Well, you are asking the wrong person bucko. I don't think that and I never claimed any such thing.
I wasn't asking you specifically. Just agreeing with the thought process and reasoning about why I asked TeaPartySamurai my question.
Who's thought process needs to be examined.
IF YOU WILL LOOK BACK AT THE ENTIRE DEBATE you wasted my time with, THE ONLY PERSON WHO KEPT SAYING THE GOVERNMENT WANTS TO KILL PEOPLE IS YOU!!!!!!!!
Quote where I said Obama wants to kill Americans? I said he wants to ration healthcare, which will enslave Americans. I said the government wants to decide whethere you live or die.
BTW, so has the rest of liberalism, supporting Obamacare.
President Obama admitted he wants the government to decide what health care Americans receive. "There's always going to be an asymmetry of information between patient and provider," he said. "And part of what I think government can do effectively is to be an honest broker in assessing and evaluating treatment options."
EDITORIAL: Obama's health care rationing - Washington Times
Obama's Health Care Rationing Czar
Jeannie DeAngelis
The President of the United States took a Congressional recess opportunity to appoint another controversial czar. Renowned for rationing health care, Donald Berwick was appointed to the position of Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
Dare we ask: Why does Obama need a rationing expert to oversee these two programs?
While Nancy is funning and sunning, Obama placed Czar Donald Berwick, president and chief executive officer of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, in the position of deciding who lives and who dies. Obama circumvented the traditional confirmation venue because Berwick's nomination was an uncertain one. Democrats realized a permanent vacation awaited them in November if the unpopular Obamacare discussion was broached again. Let's just say Berwick was a touchy nominee.
Thus, Obama dictated and denied America the opportunity to have dastardly Donald explain comments he made in an interview last year with Biotechnology Healthcare. Berwick said "society makes decisions about rationing all the time," and that the "decision is not whether or not we will ration care -- the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open. And right now, we are doing it blindly."
Obama's "blind" appointment spares Donald having to explain his praise for the UK's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). Berwick said NICE "developed very good and very disciplined, scientifically grounded, policy-connected models for the evaluation of medical treatments from which we ought to learn."
Emphasis on Berwick's comment: "policy-connected models for the evaluation of medical treatments."
Obama insisted on ruining 90% of the population's health care to insure 30-million uninsured individuals. Maybe those about to be herded toward life and death social policy mandates might like clarification on Berwick's statement that "The social budget is limited -- we have a limited resource pool. It makes terribly good sense to at least know the price of an added benefit, and at some point we might say nationally, regionally, or locally that we wish we could afford it, but we can't."
Berwick believes the "degree to which the knowledge base is linked directly to policy and decision is a matter of choice," which will be Donald's choice alone. If Obama gets his way, which he always does, death panel Donald will decide by advisory, mandatory, or policy-based measures who gets to live and who makes the sacrifice for the common good and dies.
[FONT=times new roman,times]American Thinker Blog: Obama's Health Care Rationing Czar[/FONT]
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Favors Rationing, Single Payer
Berwick has attracted controversy as a strong supporter of single payer health care, particularly in an essay written with two colleagues and published in Health Affairs in 2008.
With some risk, we note that the simplest way to establish many of these environmental conditions is a single-payer system, Berwick and his colleagues wrote.
And in a 2009 interview on Comparative Effectiveness Research in Biotechnology Healthcare, Berwick focused on what he perceives as the benefits of the UKs National Institute for Clinical Health and Excellence (NICE).
NICE is extremely effective and a conscientious, valuable, andimportantlyknowledge-building system [which has] developed very good and very disciplined, scientifically grounded, policy-connected models for the evaluation of medical treatments from which we ought to learn, Berwick said.
The interviewer pointed out, Critics of CER have said that it will lead to the rationing of health care.
Berwick responded, We can make a sensible social decision and say, Well, at this point, to have access to a particular additional benefit [new drug or treatment] is so expensive that our taxpayers have better use for those funds. The decision is not whether or not we will ration carethe decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open.
Obama’s Health Care Rationing Czar Has Lifetime Insurance From Institute Paying Him Millions of Dollars! The Urban Grind
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