Back in April of this year we posted this piece written by Stanley Kurtz on National Review Online.
Yesterday, Kathryn Nix of The Heritage Foundation posted this piece on The Foundry (the Heritage Blog). The following is from the Nix piece:
This week, the House Budget Committee and Energy and Commerce Committee held hearings to examine the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), a board of unelected bureaucrats tasked under Obamacare to reduce the growth in Medicare spending.
During the Budget Committee hearing, Grace-Marie Turner, president of the Galen Institute, described the board:
[T]he IPAB is unprecedented in the power given to unelected officials to direct hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending. The IPAB will give unelected, unaccountable government appointees the power to make decisions about payment policy in Medicare that will ultimately determine whether millions of seniors have access to the care they need. This challenges the very principles of representative democracy and consent of the governed.
If, after reading both links to this post, someone tells you the IPAB is not a Death Panel, the appropriate response would be: If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...
