Obama Medicare pick urges 'radical transfer of power'

From WND.com (March 29):

President Obama's reported pick to run Medicare and Medicaid, Donald Berwick, has argued for a "radical transfer of power" in the health industry and claimed patients' quality of care in the U.S. medical system is currently measured by the "color of their skin," WND has learned.

The blog [Health Beat] points out Berwick noted, "There's a myth that American healthcare is the best in the world."

"It's not," he continued. "It's not even close."

A 2004 extensive Boston Globe profile of Berwick, meanwhile, labeled the physician and activist a health-care "revolutionary" who wants to "blow up" the system. [read more]

What's this?! Emperor Obama has appointed another radical to a gov't position? Stop the presses! This is news! (Not!) How can this be? Oh, yea, right, now I remember. He's a radical himself.