We better pass our bill with the Graduate Medical, the GMEs, otherwise there won't be any physicians to hire.
the Republican plan for Medicare is so destructive it would actually end Medicare's guaranteed hospital benefit.
But a lot of my concern is that it is very much like the BRAC, which I think is a disaster.
I think we have been very effective. I don't see any need to change MedPAC.
I think it is a usurpation of, you know, congressional authority and, you know, I have never been in favor.
I believe very strongly--I am opposed to IPAB, but one of the reasons I also was opposed to it was because I thought that in the Affordable ...
There is no way we are ever going to overturn a BRAC decision.
IPAB has the potential to cause serious harm to Medicare beneficiaries
They would simply slash existing programs. They would end Medicare as we know it, and they would slash medical research.
Unfortunately, the debate of IPAB reminds me of the Base Realignment and Closure or BRAC process.
We should absolutely not, under any circumstances, seed legislative power to the executive branch.