Medicare chief Donald Berwick resigning - withdraws name after GOP blocks permanent role

[banned from Kos]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/health-care/medicare-chief-don-berwick-steps-down-in-standoff-with-gop-senators-over-his-confirmation/2011/11/23/gIQAoOThoN_story.html

"Berwick’s statements as an academic praising Britain’s government-run health care had become a source of controversy in politically polarized Washington. Although he later told Congress that “the American system needs its own solution” and Britain’s shouldn’t be copied here, his critics were not swayed."

The GOP Senate minority can stop anything.

[yardwork]

1. This is a big disappointment. Why do Democrats allow the minority party to do this?

[Turbineguy]

2. It is vital to the repub cause

that Medicare is dysfunctional.