BPR: The new budget deal just signed by President Trump lifts spending caps and increases military spending but it also removes a controversial component of Obamacare.
The $400 billion bill repealed the Independent Payment Advisory Board, or IPAB, which the Affordable Care Act created back in 2010, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Democrats and Obamacare fans denied its existence while conservatives slammed what former GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin called a “death panel” as it was devised to control care to recipients. The advisory board would have the power to determine – or ration – care by deciding how health dollars would be spent, making decisions based on their view of the cost, need, and patient diagnosis.
According to the Wall Street Journal:
One good development is that Republicans managed to include the repeal of ObamaCare’s Independent Advisory Payment Board, known as IPAB. The Obama central planners created this panel of bureaucrats to impose price controls on Medicare and it represents everything Americans hate about the Affordable Care Act: political rationing over individual choice.
IPAB was designed so its decisions would be nearly impossible for Congress to overrule. Repeal gives Republicans another health-care achievement to tout in the 2018 midterms, in addition to zeroing out the law’s penalty for declining to buy insurance as part of tax reform.
Yay! Keep chipping away until ZeroCare is completely gone!
This is good news.
The main purpose of Obamacare was to start money to ever increasing premiums.
Yippie! Keep peeling that rancid onion. Once you get to the black heart, put it down the garbage disposal.
WINNING!!!!!
I Thank God Donald J. Trump is president … it can’t be said enough!
had the Harridan Carpetbagger from Chappaqua become president, we wouldn’t be on the ‘Road to Serfdom’ … we would be there by now
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Since the. Republican Congress can’t figure u out a mandate when it’s handed to them, we have to do this piecemeal. At least there are a few members and a president willing to chip. Is better than the alternative.
I am so happy to see this agency eliminated! Thank you Mr. President Donald J. Trump.