WASHINGTON – The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of 50 state affiliates and more than 3,000 local chapters, today applauded congressional repeal of the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). The repeal of the bureaucratic body created by...
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Wall Street Journal highlights rationing implications of IPAB and its bureaucratic cousin
By Jennifer Popik, JD, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics A recent article in the Wall Street Journal highlights how two related entities authorized by the Obama health care law – the Independent Payment Advisory Board and the Center for Medicare and...
Howard Dean concedes that the Independent Payment Advisory Board is “essentially a health-care rationing body”
By Dave Andrusko Former governor of Vermont and Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean penned a piece for the Wall Street Journal this morning that truly qualifies as a “must-read.” The headline and the subhead tell you the thrust of his argument—“The...
House Attempts to Use New Rules to Prevent IPAB from Rationing Care
By Jennifer Popik, J.D., Legislative Counsel, NRLC’s Powell Center for Medical Ethics Recently House Republicans passed a package of rules that will guide the next (113th) Congress. Contained within these rules was a simple provision stating that “[The] Independent...
What’s Airing on Pro-Life Perspective Today:“Showdown at the Supreme Court”
By Dave Andrusko National Right to Life President and Pro-Life Perspective Host Carol Tobias ends this week’s editions of PLP with a closer look at some of the issues that did not get the airing others did when the United States Supreme Court looked at ObamaCare. One...
Repeal of a Provision at the Heart of Rationing in the Obama Health Law Moves Forward in the House
By Jennifer Popik, JD, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics Today, the House of Representatives moved closer to a floor vote to repeal one of the most controversial provisions of the Obama health care law (ObamaCare), the Independent Payment Advisory Board....
A day after announcing his retirement, pro-abortion Rep. Barney Frank announces support to repeal IPAB
By Dave Andrusko National Right to Life News Today There isn’t a lot of mileage to be gained by rehashing a pro-abortion politician’s record when he calls it a day. But on Tuesday, the day after pro-abortion Congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) announced he would not be...
First of Two Hearing Regarding Controversial IPAB
By Jennifer Popik, JD Today was the first of two hearings related to the controversial Independent Payment Advisory Board, or IPAB. H.R. 452, the bill in the House which seeks to repeal the IPAB, has 161 cosponsors from both sides of the aisle. The IPAB is the...
More Attention Will be Paid This Week to Independent Payment Advisory Board
By Dave Andrusko Its acronym—IPAB—has been likened to a new Apple Inc. product but in truth the Independent Payment Advisory Board is anything but a harmless novelty computer gizmo. The IPAB is the highly controversial component of the even more controversial...