Kevin Roberts: “I come to the floor today to speak about ObamaCare and what I have long believed is a march to rationing of health care.…”

“I come to the floor today to speak about ObamaCare and what I have long believed is a march to rationing of health care. The ObamaCare bill and the accompanying regulations now tower over 7 feet--1 foot above where I stand--when stacked together, and they have provision after provision that will deny patients the care they want, the care they need to ensure they get the life-sustaining and lifesaving treatments that are best for them. These rationing elements in ObamaCare have been documented by a recent report of the National Right to Life Committee's Powell Center for Medical Ethics. This study is entitled ``The Affordable Health Care Act and Health Care Access in the United States.'' Perhaps most egregious about ObamaCare is that it directly inserts the Federal Government into the personal lives of Americans, their families, and their doctors. We all know about the individual mandate that coerces people into purchasing a product they may not want by threatening to tax them. And I have often spoken about my personal nemesis in the rationing board that I am going to bring up--the Independent Payment Advisory Board, IPAB. This is a board made up of 18--15 voting and 3 nonvoting--all unelected bureaucrats who will decide what gets to stay and what must go in Medicare coverage. They will decide which treatments and services will be covered and which will not. And there is no accountability whatsoever. It would, in fact, take a two-thirds majority of the U.S.…”