Anyone screaming and demanding? I thought so
talk about getting between a woman and her doctor!
This is SUCH a great gift to Congress...they just figured out how to pass anything without a vote....that it goes nowhere until We the People yank it up by the roots. That will require a hyper-Tea Party Congress.
An obvious impossibility.
Suppose Obamacare goes into effect (that can't happen, because that's not its purpose). Further, suppose it works as planned.
Then, in 2036, a Congress passes a law, which is signed by the President, dissolving IPAB.
It is inconceivable that IPAB could continue. There would be no basis to overrule such a law.
If one entity or person is allowed to impose irrevocable laws, what keeps them from declaring themselves dictator for life?
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I had heard nothing about this lawsuit.
“Diane Cohen is senior attorney at the Goldwater Institute and lead counsel in Coons v. Geithner, a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of IPAB.”
Not only that, but IPAB began this year(2012), with $15 million to be spent getting the board’s infrastructure up and running. Soon, the president will be nominating its 15 “expert” members of the board of directors, each of whom is subject to Senate confirmation.
Expect these nominations to be among President Obama’s first actions should he be re-elected. Indeed, he will have little time to waste. According to the terms of the Affordable Care Act, IPAB must submit its first draft recommendations to the health and human services secretary by September 1, 2013. Its first Medicare cost-cutting goals must become law by August 15, 2014.
Why did I write “must” become law” instead of “may”? IPAB’s unique “fast track” authority divests Congress of discretion regarding the amount of money to be cut from Medicare once IPAB has submitted its “advice.” Get a load of these legislative handcuffs:
By January 15, 2014, IPAB must submit a proposal to Congress and the president for reaching Medicare savings targets in the coming year.
The majority leaders in the House and Senate must introduce bills incorporating the board’s proposal the day they receive it.
Congress cannot “consider any bill, resolution, amendment, or conference report;that would repeal or otherwise change the recommendations of the board” if such changes fail to meet the board’s budgetary target.
By April 1, all legislative committees must complete their evaluation. Any committee that fails to meet the deadline is barred from further consideration of the bill.
If Congress does not pass the proposal or a substitute plan meeting the IPAB’s financial target before August 15, or if the president vetoes the proposal passed by Congress, the original Independent Payment Advisory Board recommendations automatically take effect.
From IPAB: the part of Obamacare that can’t be repealed Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/06/ipab-the-part-of-obamacare-that-cant-be-repealed/#ixzz25DcKPSYm
Nancy and her Giant Gavel-brator and The Slock-puppet-in-Chief are worse than criminals.
Ha! Change indeed!
PPACA Is that pronounced, “Macaca”?
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Congress and the president can undo any law or act with a simple majority. The only bills passed that cannot be undone in such a way are Constitutional requirements. Or so that is how I understand it to be.
All the rest is bluster by the idiots who passed the initial law.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
Are we there yet?