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Dear Member of Congress: The National Right to Life Committee, the federation of state right-to-life organizations, urges you to support the Bipartisan Budget Act, which includes the Continuing Resolution for FY18. The mission of National Right to Life is to protect...
WASHINGTON – The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) commended the 307 members of the U.S. House of Representatives who voted Thursday for H.R. 849, the Protecting Seniors' Access to Medicare Act of 2017, to repeal the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB)....
Editor’s note. The following was distributed today in support of H.R. 849 Dear Member of Congress: The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of state right-to-life organizations, urges you to support H.R. 849, the Protecting Seniors' Access to...
By Wesley J. Smith Media Matters must be running low on targets, since it chose to go after a piece I have in the Weekly Standard this week urging that Congress repeal Obamacare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). I argue that IPAB is both unconstitutional —...
By Wesley J. Smith Editor’s note. This is excerpted from a post that appeared at the Weekly Standard and is reposted with permission. …There is still time to excise the Independent Payment Advisory Board from the Affordable Care Act before it is up and running. IPAB’s...
IPAB is composed of 15 unelected bureaucrats answerable to no one Editor's note. This letter, reprinted below, was sent to Members of Congress on October 2. Dear Representative: The mission of National Right to Life is to protect and defend the most fundamental right...
By Dave Andrusko I know I could write this just about every time I carefully read what pro-abortionists say, but, honestly, you can’t make this stuff up. Broadly speaking, I mean by this two things. First, what psychologists would call projection. They attribute to us...
By Dave Andrusko Last week we ran a story analyzing an op-ed piece that one-time Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean wrote for the Wall Street Journal in which the former Governor of Vermont conceded that the Independent Payment Advisory Board was...
By Jennifer Popik, JD Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics Starting this month, cancer clinics across the country have begun turning away thousands of Medicare patients, citing the Federal sequester budget cuts. Oncologists took a 2% funding cut, and they say that...
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...