Posted on 05/05/2015 7:11:15 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Over 500 organizations are calling on Congress to repeal a Medicare cost-cutting board that is part of ObamaCare.
The panel at issue is called the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), and is charged with coming up with ways to cut Medicare spending.
Legislation to repeal the board sponsored by Reps. Phil Roe (R-Tenn.) and Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.) has 222 co-sponsors, including 19 Democrats.
While some opponents of ObamaCare have called the IPAB a “death panel,” the board is banned by law from recommending changes that would ration care or require seniors to pay a higher share of costs. Its reforms are intended to focus on efficiency in Medicare’s payment system.
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“Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB)” = DEATH PANELS!
“While some opponents of ObamaCare have called the IPAB a “death panel,” the board is banned by law from recommending changes that would ration care or require seniors to pay a higher share of costs”
How about repealing obamacare in its entirety?
It doesn’t need to be repealed.
It’s the most unconstitutional structure ever devised, or even imagined.
Congress can’t eliminate it by legislation? Don’t be ridiculous.
Welcome to the progressive's administrative state.
Oh, please. The rebuttal presented is fallacious and re-directs the opponents' claim. The IPAB will work by adjusting the treatment protocols to limit treatment options under certain conditions. This is a one-size-fits-all solution that should better be left with the patient and their doctor. Now, the doctor will be forced into less-expensive options beyond certain ages.
However it is described, this panel will effectively become a "death panel."
How about repealing obamacare in its entirety?
How about repealing EVERYTHING ibama has done these last 6+ years!
“While some opponents of ObamaCare have called the IPAB a “death panel,” the board is banned by law from recommending changes that would ration care or require seniors to pay a higher share of costs. Its reforms are intended to focus on efficiency in Medicare’s payment system.”
If the board is banned by law, why is there a board in the first place?
Yes, despite Scotus’ efforts to rewrote the statute to make it supposedly constitutional.
Just keep voting.
A voice for reason. Please run for office and help the working class out.
I would run as the “do less” candidate.
“What are you going to do?”
I am going to do less!
> A lot LESS illegals!
>A lot LESS Entitlement programs!
>A lot LESS IRS!
>A lot LESS big government!
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