GOP Focusing on CMS Nominee’s Love for British Health System

Republican Senators are gearing up to fight the nomination of Donald Berwick, MD, as CMS administrator, focusing on his love for Britain’s government-run National Health Service, according to a report by Politico.

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Dr. Berwick, who was brought in to help improve the British system, has called it “one of the greatest healthcare institutions in human history.”

“If he wants to turn America into the National Health Service in England — he thinks that is the model — he is going to find a lot of pushback,” said Texas Sen. John Cornyn, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse said he told the White House, “It looks like the Republicans are gunning for this guy, and I hope you have yourself prepared to defend him.”

Read Politico’s report on Donald Berwick.

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