Our President Really, Really wants the British Healthcare System for the US

This story from Politico strives to make it look like it is all the mean ole GOP's fault.

GOP sees a way to revive old debate

By CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN

President Barack Obama spent the last year insisting he doesn’t want to turn the American health care system into a carbon copy of the government-run British system.

But Obama’s pick to run Medicaid and Medicare — Donald Berwick — is a pediatrician and Harvard University professor with a self-professed “love” of the British system.

Berwick has called Britain’s National Health Service “one of the greatest health care institutions in human history” and “a global treasure.” He once said it sets an “example” for the United States to follow. And his decadelong efforts to improve the NHS were so well-regarded that Queen Elizabeth granted him an honorary knighthood in 2005.

Now Senate Republicans are vowing to press their case against Obama’s sweeping new health care law by challenging Berwick’s nomination — just in time to resurrect the brutal yearlong health reform battle ahead of the midterm elections.

And given Berwick’s long career and extensive writings, Republicans say they have a lot to work with.

We can only hope the GOP can stop this appointment.  It is an arrogant, in your face, show of power by President Obama.  Read the rest of the story here.