Obamanation has nominated Dr Donald Berwick as head of the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services.
Apparently Berwick is a big time fan of Britain's National Health Service -- especially it's 'National Institute for Clinical Excellence" or NICE! Isn't that a 'nice name? It seems that NICE is the unelected body (panel) that decides what health treatments are available in Britain AND WHO IS WORTH RECEIVING THEM!!!
Berwick said, "The more I have studied it, the more I believe that less discretion for doctors would improve patient safety."
He'd prefer that practicing physicians just get out of the way and leave the important decisions to the academics and the bureaucrats such as the NICE ones Britain has. NICE is ObamaCare's model and is what gave rise to the phrase "death panels," for it literally decides matters of life and death. It's coming soon to a doctor's office or hospital near you.
Berwick says: "NICE is an extremely effective and a conscientious, valuable and — importantly — knowledge-building system." That must explain why breast cancer in America has a 25% mortality rate and in Britain it's almost double at 46%. Prostate cancer is fatal to 19% of American men who get it; in Britain it kills 57% of those it strikes.
Isn't that NICE? And they pilloried Sarah Palin for pointing out Death Panels in our Obamacare Bill....... For the whole story, click on the link, take two aspirins and don't bother to call anyone!!
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