It wasn’t technically Dickensian, but the grilling of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid chief Dr. Donald Berwick on Capitol Hill this morning was certainly the tale of two Michigan congressmen.
Berwick received tough questions from Republican members and mostly plaudits from Democrats as he testified before the House Ways and Means Committee meeting on the impact last year’s landmark Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act will have on Medicare.
What he probably didn’t expect was a lesson in literature from chairman Rep. David Camp (R-Mich.).