Posted on 07/12/2011 9:53:00 AM PDT by Nachum
Testifying before the House Budget Committee on Monday, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius downplayed the importance of the Medicare Independent Payment Advisory Board, which has been touted in the past by the administration as a central part of the strategy for containing the program's long-term costs. Republicans have attacked the 15-member board of health care experts as a rationing panel that would have sweeping powers to impose changes to the program if Congress doesn't keep Medicare spending growth at certain targets. Sebelius spent most of her opening statement explaining
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A) “A central part of the strategy for containing the program’s long-term costs”....
B) “It is nothing. It has no effect.”
I vote “A.” The corrupt Obama Regime contains the biggest (Euro-Socialist Wannabee) liars on the planet.
Not all that important? Thanks. CUT IT!!
If we are to have IPAB, we should require that Congress, Congressional staffs and everyone in the 0bama administration be personally subjected to IPAB’s medical coverage decisions.
Especially ZERO!
She’s a Euro-Trash Girl.
Time to take out the trash.
not one more red cent to study Aids, get a handle on Heart and Cancer first
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