If you had kept up with recent news concerning medicine or health, you will find that President Obama has appointed a new health official for his cabinet. He nominated Dr. Donald M. Berwick for the role of reorganizing a failed Medicare and Medicaid system. The President took advantage of Congress's recess to appoint Dr. Berwick as the Constitution allows him to do so. Dr. Berwick was appointed by our president to carry out his health care law passed earlier this year, and Mr. Obama needs him in this position to push forward a very unpopular health care reform, one that many Americans as detrimental to the current free-market medical system. Neither Democrats nor Republicans have had their assessment of Mr. Obama's appointee, but I am certain the latter will interrogate him as they did to Judge Kagan a few weeks ago. The president has drawn critics with this move as he did not need to have a recess appointee as there was no need for an emergency appointment. Dr. Berwick has some liberal views concerning health care reform, such as restricting heart surgery for patients based on their locations, age, health condition, etc. It remains to be seen if Mr. Obama has selected a worthy candidate, but I suspect that he has placed one more ally in his "pork barrel" cabinet as he chose to bypass the Senate in appointing Dr. Berwick to his position.
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