House Votes To Repeal President Obama’s Medicare Rationing Board

Washington, DC – Today, the House voted to repeal President Obama’s Medicare rationing board known as the Independent Payment Advisory Board or IPAB. The panel of 15 unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats’ sole purpose would be to cut funding for Medicare. Even though the board would make important medical decisions, it is expressly forbidden from having members who are active health care providers.

“Buried deep in the President’s 2,000 page health care bill, was one of Nancy Pelosi’s “you have to pass the bill to know what’s in it” surprises-the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB),” said Rep. Andy Harris, M.D. “It’s an unelected, unaccountable, 15 member rationing board appointed by the President, for the sole purpose of cutting Medicare. A Federal Government bureaucrat has no place in your doctor-patient relationship and that’s why we must repeal the IPAB as soon as possible.”