from Americans for Prosperity
Last week, President Obama decided to recess appoint Dr. Donald Berwick to run the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The White House claimed Republicans were blocking his nomination, but that was impossible given the fact no confirmation hearing had ever been scheduled. The New York Times even pointed out, “The recess appointment was somewhat unusual because the Senate is in recess for less than two weeks and senators were still waiting for Dr. Berwick to submit responses to some of their requests for information.” The President clearly was trying to avoid an inevitable major uproar on Capitol Hill over Dr. Berwick’s radical views on health care.
