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Posted on 01/29/2013 4:11:27 PM PST by lowbridge
The 15-member Independent Payment Advisory Board (i.e. the so-called “death panel”) included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) has run into a bit of problem: Very few want to join.
Jonathan Gruber, for example, helped lay the groundwork for Massachusetts’ health-care law and played an important role in making “Obamacare” the law of the land. So you’d think he’d be an obvious choice for the panel, right?
“No way,” he said, according to the Washington Post. “Maybe if it was a part-time gig. But full time? I can’t see it.”
And he’s not alone.
“It is supposed to be 15 members, with limited salaries who can’t do any outside work,” former director of the Office of Budget and Management under Obama Peter Orszag said. “It will be challenging to find top 15 health-care experts are who would want that job.”
“You’re joining an organization that has uncertain authority with the certainty of being deeply political and widely criticized,” said former Obama health policy adviser Bob Kocher. “It doesn’t make sense for current thought leaders in American health care to want this.”
The creators of “Obamacare” claim the board’s chief purpose is to keep the cost of Medicare in check by changing the amount of Medicare’s doctor payments (in the past, these changes have been left up to legislators). And it’s because the panel has the power to amend these payments while also coming up with new ways to “deliver high quality care for less,” as the WaPo puts it, that critics of the law claim it will lead to rationed medicine.
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Bingo.
no problem. dear leader will just outsource the jobs to the brits and euros.
So Jack Kevorkian is the only one?
Maybe Hillary...She’s already chalked up at least 4...Then there’s Foster, Brown....
What has this got to do with “health care”?
This is all about cost savings and reducing the Medicaid and Social Security roles.
Just provide 15 monkeys with rubber stamps, reading “DENIED”.
Offer enough $$$ to the typical abortionist and the panels will be easily staffed.
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