Something needs to be done before Obama starts rationing health care for seniors so he doesn't have to cut his own spending.  It could result in tragic results if he is allowed to choose who will get care and who won't as we know he doesn't exactly make totally unbiased decisions!  And who is he to try to take congresses power, because he judges them to not be doing their job.................he is Boehner equal, not his boss!

 Grace-Marie Turner from the Galen Institute Thursday, August 4, 2011

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — There is no question that Medicare must be improved to provide better health benefits to seniors at lower costs. But Congress is abdicating its constitutional responsibility by giving a panel of 15 unelected technocrats the power to cut Medicare spending and make decisions which will only result in rationing of care.

The Independent Payment Advisory Board was created as part of the new health law to guarantee that Medicare stays within a strict budget. The IPAB received little attention before the law passed, but opposition is growing inside and outside Congress.

IPAB stands for everything that is wrong with ObamaCare — taking power away from doctors and patients and putting it in the hands of elite experts who have virtually no accountability to patients or voters.

Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ), the top Democrat on the Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee which oversees Medicare, said he has no interest in defending the board. “I’ve never supported it, and I would certainly be in favor of abolishing it,” he said.

At least five Democrats have joined Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-PA) in cosponsoring legislation introduced by Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN) to repeal the IPAB. “Congress is a representative body and must assume responsibility for legislating sound health care policy for Medicare beneficiaries, including those policies related to payment systems,” Schwartz said.

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