Seema Verma has been administrator of the Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services since March of 2017. Previously, she worked
directly for Indiana governor Mitch Daniels and thereafter as a consultant working
for Daniels' successor, Mike Pence.
Once "selected for the American Enterprise Institute Leadership Network," Verma is probably performing as expected for President Trump. She is helping advance the mission of Ronald(6) Wilson(6) Reagan(6) and Grover Norquist, to destroy government in service of the barons of the private sector. ignorance is not a bug but a benefit. Like most of the Trump Administration, she is not there to make government work but to impel its failure and ultimate destruction.
As outlined here, throughout her stint in Indiana and in
Washington, D.C. Verma has been hostile to the Affordable Care Act and
Medicaid. And now we learn that her
knowledge of comparative government is roughly equal to her concern for health
care for the poor and the uninsured. She was asked on Trump TV "What is
the Vice President referring to when he's saying the best model we have is
what's happening in Italy?" Verma responded
Well, I think if you look at these other countries, if you
look at China and South Korea, right, those have very different approaches .
Uh, we're a free country, we're giving recommendations to the American people
and hoping they adhere to those.
The governments of mainland China and South Korea are
approximately as comparable as the government of the Phillipines is to that in
Australia. According to Wikipedia
The Government of South Korea is a centralized democratic
republic with the three primary branches of government; executive, legislative
and judicial. The president acts at the head of state and is the highest figure
of authority in the country, followed by the prime minister and government
ministers in decreasing order....
As with most stable three-branch systems, a careful system
of checks and balances is in place. For instance, the judges of the
Constitutional Court are partially appointed by the executive, and partially by
the legislature. Likewise, when a resolution of impeachment is passed by the
legislature, it is sent to the judiciary for a final decision....
Elections in South Korea are held on national level to
select the President and the National Assembly. South Korea has a multi-party
system, with two dominant parties and numerous third parties. Elections are
overseen by the Electoral Branch, National Election Commission (Republic of
Korea).
Not free?! Yet South Korea recently managed to impeach their president for abuse of power and put the head of their largest corporation behind bars for corruption. Perhaps a model in more than one way! https://t.co/npJnY9u83Y— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) April 3, 2020
Once "selected for the American Enterprise Institute Leadership Network," Verma is probably performing as expected for President Trump. She is helping advance the mission of Ronald(6) Wilson(6) Reagan(6) and Grover Norquist, to destroy government in service of the barons of the private sector. ignorance is not a bug but a benefit. Like most of the Trump Administration, she is not there to make government work but to impel its failure and ultimate destruction.
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