President Obama got serious this week about the ticking time bomb in his new health-care legislation -- the lack of any clear plan to reduce costs and improve quality. What he did was install someone who can use our behemoth Medicare and Medicaid programs as laboratories for change -- so that reform doesn't bankrupt the country. (David Ignatius, Washington Post, 7/9/10)
In the continuing assault on his self-professed aspirations to change the way business is done in Washington, President Obama makes a recess appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Yes, President Bush made recess appointments as well, but then again, it was Obama who was going to be different, was going to be transparent, blah, blah, blah…
What really got our eye, however, was this (unintended?) admission that the previous talk of the untold savings to be realized by eliminating waste in the system was just more rhetoric. Obama and the Dems never had a clue as to how or what to do! Not to worry, however, the good doctor is headed to the laboratory to begin experimenting. Comforted?
Goodbye Harry
President Obama wrapped up a two-day campaign swing on Friday with a full-throated defense of his economic policies and a warm-hearted embrace for the Senate Democratic leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, a onetime boxer who is counting on the president to help him fight his way through a tough re-election race. (NYT, 7/10/10)
We already know what happens when President Obama campaigns for someone…..
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