Medicare administrator Donald Berwick resigns in the face of Republican opposition
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 24th, 2011 5:34 am by HL
Medicare administrator Donald Berwick resigns in the face of Republican opposition
President Obama’s top Medicare official has resigned in the face of Republican pledges to block his confirmation in the Senate.
Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Donald M. Berwick notified colleagues Wednesday that he will step down Dec. 2, nearly a month before the expiration of his recess appointment.
Sherry Rehman, liberal lawmaker, is Pakistan’s new U.S. envoy
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan named a liberal lawmaker as its new ambassador to the United States on Wednesday, swiftly filling a crucial diplomatic vacancy created amid a scandal that highlighted civil-military tensions.
The appointment of Sherry Rehman, a prominent former journalist known for her human rights work, surprised observers who had expected a choice with a more obvious stamp of approval from the country’s powerful military.
Wonkbook: The GOP’s dual-trigger nightmare
Imagine if the Democrats offered Republicans a deficit deal that had more than $3 in tax increases for every $1 in spending cuts, assigned most of those spending cuts to the Pentagon, and didn’t take a dime from Social Security, Medicaid or Medicare beneficiaries. Republicans would laugh at them. But without quite realizing it, that’s the deal Republicans have now offered to the Democrats.
