Posted on 06/15/2012 3:48:40 PM PDT by Lorianne
The individual mandate isn’t Obamacare’s only unconstitutional provision, or even its most unconstitutional provision. That distinction belongs to the Independent Payment Advisory Board. A heretofore unreported feature of this super-legislature makes it even more authoritarian and dangerous than anyone knew.
IPAB consists of up to 15 unelected government “experts.” Its stated purpose is to restrain Medicare spending. If projected spending exceeds certain targets, Obamacare requires IPAB to issue “legislative proposals” to reduce future spending. Those proposals could include drastic cuts that jeopardize seniors’ access to care, leading some critics to label IPAB a “death panel.”
But the really dangerous part is that these are not mere “proposals.” Obamacare requires the secretary of Health and Human Services to implement them — which means they become law automatically — unless Congress takes certain steps to head them off. Congress may replace the Board’s proposal with its own cuts, at least initially. But Obamacare requires a three-fifths vote in the Senate to pass any replacement that spends more than the Board’s proposal. In other words, to override IPAB’s proposal completely, opponents must assemble a simple majority in the House and a three-fifths majority in the Senate and the president’s signature.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Too late to be argued before the current Supreme court case.
These totalitarian monsters in the democrat party are nothing if not maliciously deceptive.
Ms Skeletor.
I suggest the GOP pass a flat tax that can only be repealed by a 9/10ths majority in the Senate.
Let’s see what liberals think of that.
That's the only way they can operate, but Obama and his administration have opened too many eyes, IMHO. Election Day will tell if I'm right.
Hopefully they have got the gist of it from just skimming and declare the entire thing unconstitutional.
Well...if THEY weren’t going to read it...I sure hope they are listening to the tenor of the public...
Notice how the article says a Heretofore unreported story,well Im a non College educated Dope and have Known about this as well as the Comparative Effectiveness Research Panel Funded with 1 Billion Dollars of Stimulus Money and Chaired My Dr. Mengele,Ezekiel Emmanuel,of The Complete Lives system, that has heretofore NOT been reported either! So the question is Why with 24/7 Blabbing Morons on Cable tv has none of these details and COUNTLESS others been REPORTED?
And I guarantee you that no more than one in 10,000 people is even aware of this.
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