ObamaCare Info

Taken from a recent LTE by Ron:

 Regarding ObamaCare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), Governor Romney said during the first debate that it would be able to decide “what kind of medical treatment you ought to have.”  President Obama said that wasn’t true. Here’s what we've learned since.

The IPAB will consist of 15 members – all appointed - and, beginning in 2014, will make recommendations to Congress each year for reducing Medicare costs.  If by August 15^th of that year, these recommendations – or other measures achieving the same “savings” - are not enacted by Congress, the IPAB proposals automatically become law and go into effect. (And here I thought only Congress could make law.)

It gets worse:  Congress can only repeal IPAB during a seven-month period in 2017 and then by no less than a three-fifths majority in both the House and the Senate. After that, the law precludes Congress from ever altering the IPAB proposals.   (Talk about un-constitutional!!!)

This is just one more untenable thing contained in the "Affordable Patient Care" bill.  ObamaCare must go.