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Pat Roberts: It established the Independent Payment Advisory Board, or IPAB, an unelected, unaccountable board of 15 bureaucrats…

On the recordMarch 10, 2014
It established the Independent Payment Advisory Board, or IPAB, an unelected, unaccountable board of 15 bureaucrats empowered to make cuts to the Medicare program most likely in the form of cuts to doctors.
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Pat Roberts
Republican · Kansas

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PAT ROBERTS expressed concern about the IPAB's potential impact on Medicare.

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