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From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time

-- F.A. Hayak

Saturday, April 30, 2011

The Monumental Ignorance of Donald Berwick

Donald Berwick, you will recall, is President Obama’s [unconfirmed] head of ObamaCare. Seeking to explain why ObamaCare is the best way to make medical care more efficient, Dr. Berwick wrote an editorial in the Wall Street Journal.  In his latest blog post, Daniel Mitchell is dumbfounded at Donald Berwick’s ignorance – if that is what it is. Here’s how Mr. Mitchell expressed it:

 

I have no idea whether Berwick realizes that he has inverted reality, so I can’t decide whether he is cynically dishonest or hopelessly clueless. All I can say with certainty is that what he wrote is sort of like asserting “gravity causes things to fall, so therefore this rock will rise when I let go of it.”

 

That lefties like Dr. Berwick are clueless is not surprising and scarcely deserving of too much attention. However, I particularly liked Mitchell’s comparison.