Washington (CNSNews.com) – Donald Berwick, recently re-nominated as Medicare chief, praised the new health care law in a speech on Thursday. But he declined to say if it redistributed wealth from the rich to the poor, as he has previously said a “just” and “equitable” health care funding plan must do.

Berwick has made a number of other controversial statements concerning health care policy. In a June 2009 interview published in Biotechnology Healthcare, Berwick was asked about rationing of health care and said: “We make those decisions all the time. The decision is not whether or not we will ration care — the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open.”

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