What I like about that is, that will do more to cause the treatment of Medicare to be scrutinized than anything else and will save a lot of money without reducing benefits or payments to doctors, because that is written into the accountable health care law.
Rockefeller emphasizes the importance of the Independent Payment Advisory Board for Medicare scrutiny and savings.
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one of the things that happened with the CBO scoring was that yes, there was a cost because you were keeping CHIP operating, but there was a savings because the children were not transferring into the Affordable Care Act, for example.
This process of asking tough questions is in fact called 'oversight.' It's one of the most important jobs Congressional committees have, maybe the most important.
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