Posted on 03/19/2012 12:53:59 PM PDT by 92nina
The U.S. House of Representatives this week will be voting on H.R. 452, the “Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2011.” This bill would repeal the Medicare rationing board known as “IPAB,” and is part of a full repeal of the jobs-killing Obamacare law.
The harmful Obamacare law created a new and unelected government panel known as “IPAB.” The basic role of IPAB would be to institute price controls and rationing within the Medicare system. This is the same type of wrong-headed price controls attempted in socialized medicine systems throughout the world. It doesn’t work anywhere else, and it won’t work here.
Medicare spending is spiraling out of control. According to CBO’s alternative long-term scenario, the cost of federal health entitlements will grow from 5.6 percent of GDP today, to 9.2 percent of GDP in 2030, to 13 percent of GDP in 2050. Something must be done to control the rate of spending growth in these programs, but an unelected price control board is not it.
Medicare must become a modern health insurance system similar to that available to federal employees, including Members of Congress. Current Medicare beneficiaries and those scheduled to come online to the program in the next decade should get the system which has been promised to them and around which they have already planned their retirement. Changes now would amount to a cruel bait-and-switch for these seniors.
Younger and middle-aged workers should be able to choose from a variety of competing health insurance providers when they enter Medicare. This competition should be what’s expected to drive up innovation and efficiencies and drive down cost. In addition, seniors better able to bear the burden of Medicare costs should be expected to, so that deep cuts to Medicare for less-affluent seniors can be avoided in the future.
The first step in responsibly saving Medicare for future seniors is to remove wrong-headed approaches to Medicare savings which will only result in price controls and rationing.
H.R. 452 is that necessary first step, and it should be supported by all Members of Congress who want to both solve the entitlement crisis and keep promises made to retirees and near-retirees.
Read more: http://www.atr.org/house-kill-obamacares-medicare-rationing-panel-a6778#ixzz1pasIyUQC
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I’ll believe it when I see it...
“I’ll believe it when I see it...”
Oh we’ll see it, although for the life of me I can’t think of why.
It has zero (0) chance of getting through the Senate. Even if it did, the bigger zero in the White House would veto it, with NO chance of being overridden.
I am convinced that politician of the left and the right get together and decide to pass things like this because it gives them both something to campaign on. Other than that, it accomplishes nothing.
“I’ll believe it when I see it...”
Oh we’ll see it, although for the life of me I can’t think of why.
It has zero (0) chance of getting through the Senate. Even if it did, the bigger zero in the White House would veto it, with NO chance of being overridden.
I am convinced that politicians of the left and the right get together and decide to pass things like this because it gives them both something to campaign on. Other than that, it accomplishes nothing.
It may pass the House but reid will kill it dead dead dead!
LLS
BUMP!
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Meanwhile, the drumbeat of Dictator Baby-Doc Barak continues to grow louder - - .
If they were serious, they would start defunding it. That HAS to come from the house. HHS can’t spend money that isn’t appropriated.
That is a big if. The house does not have the support to really do anything about it.
They can only wound it slightly. But the Senate will heal it. The House gets an "S" for trying.
I can't say I remember communist death panels. I suppose they had to exist, but certainly never thought the US government would someday decide when we died.
Time is short. If Scotus blows up Obamacare and Santorum or Newt is elected, 2012 may mark the high tide of evil liberalism. If not, . . . adios.
“That is a big if. The house does not have the support to really do anything about it.”
As I said, they are not serious. We need a defining election in which repeal of Obamacare is a key issue. Sans that, there is no repeal. And we’re about to nominate the one candidate at whom folks will laugh when he criticizes Obamacare—assuming that he even bothers to pretend he is against it.
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