Get Ready for Donald Berwick to Run Your Health Care

Sunday Paper - July 11th, 2010

On this week’s Health Care News podcast, Avik Roy, one of the most insightful writers about health care policy today, took the time to discuss with me the White House’s decision to bypass the nomination process of the U.S. Senate to recess appoint Donald Berwick as head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

People have asked me this week why this recess appointment is such a bad thing. Well, this video clip shows why, in an honest expression of the anti-market views Berwick holds from the man himself. Here’s what he says:

“Please don’t put your faith in market forces. It’s a popular idea that Adam Smith’s invisible hand would do a better job of designing care than leaders with plans can. I do not agree. I find little evidence anywhere that market forces, bluntly used, that is, consumer choice among an array of products with competitors’ fighting it out, leads to the health care system you want and need.”

These two paths run in opposite directions: the path toward market based solutions, where people direct their own care with their doctors, making decisions for themselves, and the path toward bureaucracy based solutions, where unelected experts — “leaders with plans” — determine people’s care, making decisions for them. Berwick is clear about which path he believes America must follow.

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This is all the more disturbing considering Berwick, known already for his views on “redistributing wealth” as a necessary part of health care policy, is now the most important figure in the application of the authority-grabbing Obamacare legislation. He will preside over the reorganization of Medicare and Medicaid, drive the policies of the entire health insurance marketplace (since they take their cues from Medicare), and a pile of money representing roughly 1/6th of the American economy…

by Ben Domemech

Read more at BIGGOVERNMENT - July 9th, 2010

http://biggovernment.com/bdomenech/2010/07/09/get-ready-for-donald-berwick-to-run-your-health-care/

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