Donald Berwick Opposes Free Markets

An excerpt from a 2008 speech by Donald Berwick, President Obama's nominee to head the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, speaking to a British audience about why he opposes free market solutions to health care problems.

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News & Politics

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• Donald Berwick
• Health Care
• single payer
• redistribution
• Barack Obama

[jwbaumann]

@omigrad I agree he's bright. I agree he speaks honestly. I too have a deep fear for the U.S. because this bright man honestly believes in top down control by intellectual leaders over compliant subject/serfs. He honestly thinks he knows better than us how to decide on our own health care. That is a fearful thought indeed. The truth is, he is a dangerous man and needs to be quickly neutralized.

The truth is, socialism does not work.

The truth is, freedom is a blessing from God.

[TimeWarp66]

Wow, what an economically illiterate moron.

[anryth]

Really? He can't find the evidence? Is he even looking or is he just a straight up denier? How many times has totalitarianism been tried in the past 3000 years or so and how many times has it led to anything aside from misery? Society has two choices, it can either be guided by the invisible hand or it can be ruled by the iron fist. Which do you prefer?

[booksum]

Not hard to figure out why Obama didn't want this communist jag bag to undergo confirmation hearings in the senate....He would have been reamed out and rejected

[jwood1952]

Oh so the Free Market doesn't work, but Govt. controlled health care does? And what role model is he using to support his position. None, cause there isn't any. All these Socialist Clowns, including our leader must go, ASAP. Hope we never re-visit electing a moron like Obama. He's clueless.

[mmeister7]

The truth is in a "free market" healthcare system with no government intervention people would be sick and dying all over the place. You think a heat attack victim or cancer patient can afford to bargain with a hospital adminiistrator all day? Americans HC system is a joke outside of America. Everyone knows that.

[johndrew25]

@AramNai I can tell that you are an amateur from the quality of your responses, your lack of detail, and your lack of relevant credentials. You are also slow to react to information that is contrary to your thesis. If you want to get up to speed on liberals and their ideology, I recommend Thomas Sowell's book, "A Conflict of Visions"

[AramNai]

@johndrew25 How could you possibly know how much I've studied any subject?

Give it up, doc. You're a partisan without a firm grasp on reality. Come back to where the adults conversate. It's a more sane place.

[johndrew25]

@AramNai I've studied liberals and liberal ideology in greater detail than you. Trust me. If you were a normal person - psychologically - you would be thanking me for bringing your thoughts about Obama into greater conformity with the truth. You are not alone, however, there are a lot of liberal who cannot seem to handle the truth about Barack Obama.

[AramNai]

@johndrew25 Sorry, doc, but "Liberals don't seem to care as much about the truth as independents and conservatives" told me all I needed to know about you.

You're unable to discuss issues without resorting to sweeping hyperbolic generalizations. I don't think that's because you're a conservative (see what I did there? How I didn't cheaply generalize and shut down the argument?), I think it's because you're a wacko. Not people with similar views, just you.