Fixit Fund

July 19 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama still wants the U.S. Senate to confirm Donald Berwick as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Obama resubmitted Berwick’s nomination to the Senate today. He put Berwick in the job July 7 using a recess appointment, a procedure that lets the president fill positions without Senate confirmation when Congress isn’t in session. The nomination had been stalled since it was submitted in April because of opposition from some Republicans.

Sending the nomination to the Senate following the recess appointment is “simply a formality,” said Reid Cherlin, an administration spokesman.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which oversee the two government programs that benefit more than 100 million poor, elderly and disabled Americans, haven’t had a permanent administrator since October 2006.

Berwick, 63, previously was president and chief executive officer of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health.

--Editors: Jim Rubin, Robin Meszoly

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Gee, Business Week used to be so much better than that... It would tell you WHY he was being opposed, - because the crazy bastard thought the British National Health System was better than sliced bread, and that rationing of healthcare to old and disabled people was the only way to ensure that we had enough healthcare for the deserving people like the liberals and the illegal immigrants.

Just google his name - Donald Berwick - and read all about him. I get nauseous when I talk about him or think about him. He IS the death panels that are NOT in obumacare that Governor Palin warned us about.

Anyone who reads this website knows that I'm a gentle soul, forever preaching peace and nonviolence, but the mind boggles at this concept: 100 million poor, elderly and disabled Americans threatened by one man. If each of them contributed one dollar to a fund to hire a team of hit men, how long do you suppose Donald Berwick would last?

Damn, I could daydream for the rest of the afternoon about this concept - there should be a lot of change left over for other worthy projects after Berwick. What else needs to be fixed up? Some repairs around the house, the senate? No job too big or too small. Reliable Christian handyman available for odd jobs. References.

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