Concern about Obama's Pick to Head Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is Valid

Here's a write-up about that guy Obama chose to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, including a short video clip excerpt of a speech he gave in 2008, revealing his pro-socialistic ideals about redistribution of wealth. Are the Republicans wrong to be concerned about this pick, as the LA Times says?

 Obama Nominee Donald Berwick's Radical Agenda

Here's the L.A. Times editorial