End run: Appointment keeps lid on health debate
Some observations on President Obama 's recess appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick to head up Medicare / Medicaid and to administer the country's new health care program.
First, the maneuver isn't unprecedented. A relic of the olden days when Congress left town for weeks or months between sessions, it was a way for the chief executive to temporarily fill posts too important to be left vacant.
In modern ti...
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