“Ubama can’t wait to start rounding up the dissenters.”
No — they will just use the death panels...
EXCERPT:
“You can reassure any elderly relatives that there is absolutely, definitely, without a doubt no death panel in the Affordable Care Act. There is an Independent Payment Advisory Board, which would be allowed to recommend payment cuts for doctors who serve Medicare patients. This board is not allowed to deny patients’ care; they only get to tinker with reimbursement rates.
On top of that, the IPAB isn’t going into effect this year—or in the foreseeable future. That’s because it only kicks in when health-care costs are growing faster than the rest of the economy, and right now they’re growing at about the exact same rate. So, at least until Thanksgiving of next year, there is no chance of any panel changing his benefits.”
Obamacare rationing coming? No doubt, analyst says
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101232526
EXCERPT:
“The independent payment advisory board, which is a big part of the Affordable Care Act that is central to cost control, is something that hasn’t been debated in a real way,” Halperin told Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, who was filling in for Larry Kudlow.
“Those decisions that are made by that board are going to lead to what I think could be described perfectly reasonably as rationing. Again, as I said, that’s built into the system. There’s going to be an effort to control costs,” he said.
“This board is not allowed to deny patients’ care; they only get to tinker with reimbursement rates.”
What could possibly go wrong?®
What’s to stop the rest of us from forming our own ‘death panels’?