Meet You and Your Doctors Master, the Independent Payment Advisory Board.

Congressional Budget Office ^ | December 20, 2009 | Congressional Budget Office

[Leisler]

(The) Independent Payment Advisory Board.. would be required.. to recommend (spending )changes to ..Medicare .. to limit the rate of growth in ..spending. Those recommendations would go into effect automatically...

[Leisler]

"Based on this extrapolation, CBO expects that Medicare spending under the legislation...blah, blah, blah... in the delivery of health care
.....or would reduce access to care
... or diminish the quality of care.

SWEET! YAH BABY, BEND OVER!

[facedown]

Wait, I thought there was no such thing as a “death panel”?

[Kenny]

Our only hope is to get this information to the public asap. Can’t depend on MSM but people need to know dammit!

[Leisler]

Think of it as a union EMT “We ARE Having Double Latte Moca Break” while you are pregnant and dying in the same room panel.

Totally different.

[Leisler]

[Mr.Unique]

Exactly.

[Ganndy]

people need to know

Oh people know, yes they do... What pct. of the people work for the government?
What pct. of those people vote?
What pct. of the private sector vote?

That is where the war is.
unfortunately we need to target the fight where it begins.

[old curmudgeon]

Good.

Get started on it right away so the dummies will find out before the 2010 election who their real friends are.

[buckalfa]

The sad truth is that such panels already exist for most all types of insurance plus Medicare and Medicaid. Call it pre-approval or pre-certification of services or approved diagnosis and procedure formularies. The frightening part is the concentration of such powers in the hands of Federal regulators and bureaucrats.

[Buckeye McFrog]

That’s the way it goes in every other country on earth. Some bureaucrat in the National Health Service gets to give thumbs-up or thumbs-down on your treatment. Sometimes the press will pick up their story and embarrass the bureaucrats into a one-time reversal. If that does not happen all the patient has left is medical tourism.

[Leisler]

You need to keep up on your local donations to your Congressmen so that they can bump someone off so you can get the treatment.

Russia/Cuba/Turd World style.

[c-five]

Independent Payment Advisory Board => Unaccountable Payment Advisory Board.

When it comes to politically created “independent” boards, panels, agencies, etc., I always subtitute “unaccountable”.

[Leisler]

Naturally for the responsibility, they’ll need mid 6 figure salaries. Staff, too. Lots of staff. For studies, research, investigations. Good staff too. And assistants. And a big building. And pensions...an...

I just question the name. My recommendation, something like Peoples All Labor Price And Material Good Costs And Construction Committee of the Union of American States.