In his July 9th column praising the recess appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), David Ignatius reports:

The CMS post has been unfilled since 2006 and Obama finally decided enough, already. The White House said Republicans “were going to stall the nomination as long as they could, solely to score political points.”

The White House can say whatever it wants but even columnists should check and see if they are telling the truth. And as ABC’s Jake Tapper reported, the GOP had no interest in stalling Dr. Berwick’s hearing:

Sen. John Kerry,

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Politico’s Jennifer Haberkorn’s May 26th article, Dems support Medicare brochure, article leaves out some key details about the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service (CMS) produced four-page brochure. For starters she leaves out the fact that taxpayers are fooring the $18 million bill for producing and mailing the propaganda.

But more importantly she does not even try to identify or fact check any of the claims in the brochure. For example, the White House directed brochure says Obamacare will “provide you and your family greater savings and increased quality health care.” But the CMS’s own report on Obamacare … Continue Reading