Bipartisan Rejection of Obamacare’s IPAB Rationing Board Grows

Heritage ^ | 7/21/11 | Todd Thurman

[Nachum]

This week, the House Budget Committee and Energy and Commerce Committee held hearings to examine the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), a board of unelected bureaucrats tasked under Obamacare to reduce the growth in Medicare spending.

During the Budget Committee hearing, Grace-Marie Turner, president of the Galen Institute, described the board:

[T]he IPAB is unprecedented in the power given to unelected officials to direct hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending. The IPAB will give unelected, unaccountable government appointees the power to make decisions about payment policy in Medicare that will ultimately determine whether millions of seniors have access to the care they need. This challenges the very principles of representative democracy and consent of the governed.

[Nachum]

Video at link

[ckilmer]

[Nachum]

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[Mr. K]

Someone told me there was a YouTube video of Anythony Wiener claiming near total credit for writing Obamacare.

“I wrote it, I created it, it is 100% my invention” (or words to that effect) is what he claimed.

Does anyone know if this is true? If it is we need to make it go viral

[muawiyah]

In creating ObamaKKKare Tony went bonkers. He's no longer in Congress. No one cares about him any more.

If he jumped off a rooftop it might make a blurb in SCREW but nowhere else.

[muawiyah]

In creating ObamaKKKare Tony went bonkers. He's no longer in Congress. No one cares about him any more.

If he jumped off a rooftop it might make a blurb in SCREW but nowhere else.

[rockinqsranch]

I haven’t the best recall around, but I’ll take a shot at it here. IIRC “Little Tommy Daschle” was the major author of this Obamacare monstrosity, and why in the beginning the Dems were so desireous of him being the head of it all.

I’ve been wondering where the little guy disappeared to as we never hear about him anymore. The fact we don’t hear about him tells me he’s quite active in all of this behind the Democrat Cloaking device.

[penelopesire]

“But while bipartisan support builds against IPAB, some on the left would have the board go even further. Judith Feder of the Center for American Progress told the Budget Committee: “Congress should…modify IPAB’s current spending target to apply not just to Medicare but to private insurance. Indeed, to all health care spending, and extend its authorities to trigger recommendations for all payer payment reform if the target is breached.”

Damn commies!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Nachum.

The IPAB will give unelected, unaccountable government appointees the power to make decisions about payment policy in Medicare that will ultimately determine whether millions of seniors have access to the care they need. This challenges the very principles of representative democracy and consent of the governed.