The Independent Payment Advisory Board represents the worst of both.
It is not accountable to any constituency. It only exists to cut provider payments to fit a mathematically-created target.
Dr. Burgess has called IPAB 'Armageddon.'
If this Congress continues to bury its head in the sand about that, we are going to find that the world becomes very, very hostile.
it just takes me back to a speech that Ronald Reagan gave in 1964.
The Republicans' position is untenable. We have both a spending problem and a revenue problem. It's obvious. Federal tax revenues now are on...
It's essential. It's absolutely necessary.
It does seem like it's a pretty unfair negotiating strategy for the Republicans, and it looks like maybe it's blown up in their face.
But the Republicans have to come with some taxes.
it's essential. It's absolutely necessary.
The cuts speak for themselves, but the American people deserve to hear the truth about the IPAB as little more than a roadmap to potentially...
This isn't government by the people. It is instead government by the bureaucrats.
Decisions regarding patient care shouldn't be made by a panel of 15 unelected bureaucrats who haven't examined the specifics of an individua...
What one person considers rationing, another might refer to as reducing excessive growth areas of Medicare.
The former OMB Director, Peter Orszag, called the IPAB the single biggest yielding of power to an independent entity since the creation of t...
I am convinced that if we do not make a concerted effort to produce the workforce needed by manufacturers that it will mean nothing less tha...
We cannot rely on the private sector alone to make the investments and develop the programs that will ensure that the United States has the ...
So they keep changing the game. When you go to one place, they go somewhere else.
