If you’re not convinced by my claim that IPAB is bad medicine, read Paul Hsieh’s write-up at Pajamas Media about ObamaCare’s powerful rationing board:
One of President Obama’s key proposals to reduce skyrocketing Medicare costs is a so-called Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). The IPAB would consist of 15 members appointed by the president (and confirmed […]
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IPAB IS AN ACRONYM FOR DEATH PANEL
My latest column for the American Spectator delves deeper into the unsavory realities of the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB):
IPAB was created pursuant to section 3403 of the ironically named Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), and its ostensible purpose is to “control costs.â€? In reality, it will do nothing at all about costs. Instead, […]
IPAB: MAY I DEBUNK A TALKING POINT?
Since the President was was kind enough to remind everyone about ObamaCare’s death panel, the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), the main lefty talking point is the following (which I saw repeated almost verbatim at a dozen progressive blogs and “news” sites before I got bored):
The ACA severely limits the scope of IPAB recommendations, specifically excluding […]
SCARY VIDEO: PETER ORSZAG EXPLAINS IPAB’S “ENORMOUS” POWER
What’s IPAB? It’s the ”Independent Payment Advisory Board” that our President will use to ration health care if he is permitted to do so. It was created by ObamaCare and, as Obama’s former OMB director explains in this clip, it will have far more effect on the country’s fiscal trajectory than the Congressional Budget Office.
IPAB has statutory power […]
DONALD BERWICK’S FAVORITE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM KILLS AGAIN
Britain’s deadly system of socialized medicine, the NHS, has claimed yet another victim. But this time the tragedy is mixed with irony. The patient was a former NHS director:
A former NHS director died after waiting for nine months for an operation—at her own hospital. Margaret Hutchon, a former mayor, had been waiting since last June for a […]
RATIONING UPDATE: BRITAIN’S NHS DENIES CANCER SURGERY DUE TO AGEISM
As I have often pointed out, the favorite health care system of our CMS adminsitrator is Britain’s NHS. Dr. Donald Berwick, quite literally, loves that third-world socialized medical system—and now he is in charge of ours.  So, you may be interested in knowing what the NHS has been up to lately:
Thousands of older cancer patients are being […]
BERWICK BITES THE DUST?
It sounds too good to be true, but that seems to be what’s in wind. According to Politico, Senate Democrats are about to throw in the towel on Obama’s recess-appointed CMS administrator:
Senate Democrats have given up on confirming Don Berwick as CMS administrator … a person familiar with the situation said Senate Democrats and the White […]
DR. BERWICK AND MR. HIDE
My latest column for the American Spectator highlights the many flip-flops Obama’s CMS chief executed in his February 10 testimony before the House Ways & Means Committee. He changed so many of his positions it was as if he had become a completely different person:
His disingenuous opening remarks, evasive answers, and transparent contempt for congressional oversight revealed Obama’s recess-appointed […]
VIDEO: OBAMA’S HEALTH CARE CZAR RAKED OVER THE COALS BY REP. TOM PRICE, M.D.
Yesterday, Tom Price, M.D. (R-GA) questioned Donald Berwick, recess-appointed administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, at a hearing in the House Committee on Ways & Means. And Dr. Price was none too gentle about it. He pressed him especially hard on the promise that Americans could keep coverage that they like under ObamaCare. Berwick’s […]
OUR FDA-CREATED DRUG SHORTAGE
One of the arguments frequently made by “reform” advocates in the years running up to the passage of ObamaCare was that the free market was too chaotic to properly allocate health care resources. Indeed, our new CMS administrator warned us not to put our faith in market forces.
These geniuses wanted the government to impose order on the system. Wanna see what happens when […]