[StBernard] Obama's Radical New Health Care Appointment

[Westley Annis]

Dear Friend, 

	

President Obama's health care bill cut more than a half a trillion dollars
from Medicare that will already limit health care choices for Americans, and
now President Obama has chosen a radical nominee to manage Medicare and
Medicaid who has openly praised health care rationing and the redistribution
of wealth. 

	

Dr. Donald Berwick has been nominated by President Obama to lead the Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Berwick has stated 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 the less
fortunate. Excellent health care is by definition redistributional." 

	

Berwick has also praised England's government rationing of health care
stating "you cap your health care budget, and you make the political and
economic choices you need to make to keep affordability within reach." It is
absolutely unconscionable to make health care decisions based on cost and
politics instead of a person's life. 

	

Rest assured that I will strongly oppose the nomination of Dr. Berwick and
will continue to fight to repeal ObamaCare. 

Sincerely,
David Vitter
U.S. Senator