#IWANTREPEAL: Democrats’ Medicare Cutters: A Board of 15 Unelected, Unaccountable Bureaucrats
FYI, a similar version of this release below went out to the following districts: Ron Barber (AZ-08), John Barrow (GA-12), Tim Bishop (NY-01), Leonard Boswell (IA-03), Bruce Braley (IA-01), Ben Chandler (KY-06), David Cicilline (RI-01), Mark Critz (PA-12), Raul Grijalva (AZ-07), Brian Higgins (NY-26), Jim Himes (CT-04), Ruben Hinojosa (TX-15), Kathy Hochul (NY-27), Rush Holt (NJ-12), Steve Israel (NY-03), Larry Kissell (NC-08), Bill Keating (MA-09), Rick Larsen (WA-02), David Loebsack (IA-02), Nita Lowey (NY-17), Carolyn McCarthy (NY-04), Mike Michaud (ME-02), Bill Owens (NY-21), Bill Pascrell (NJ-09), Frank Pallone (NJ-06), Ed Perlmutter (CO-07), Collin Peterson (MN-07), Chellie Pingree (ME-01), Nick Rahall (WV-03), Louise Slaughter (NY-25), Betty Sutton (OH-16), John Tierney (MA-06), Paul Tonko (NY-20), Niki Tsongas (MA-03), Tim Walz (MN-01), John Yarmuth (KY-03)
Boswell’s Medicare Cutters: A Board of 15 Unelected, Unaccountable Bureaucrats
Treatment Choices and the Patient-Doctor Relationship Under Control of Government Bureaucrats, Not Seniors or Doctors
WASHINGTON — After Leonard Boswell’s massive government takeover of healthcare was estimated to slash over $700 billion from seniors’ Medicare, who will now decide how the rest of the funds will be dispersed? Thanks to Boswell, it won’t be seniors who decide but a board of fifteen unelected bureaucrats that will dictate – even above a presidential veto – who and what is covered under ObamaCare.
“Boswell gave more power to unaccountable bureaucrats at the cost of shrinking seniors’ ability to make their own healthcare choices,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay. “To take back their quality and access to care, current and future Iowa seniors can’t let Leonard Boswell come back to Congress in November.”
Several doctors and patient groups predict that the Democrats’ unelected board of government bureaucrats would strip seniors’ access to care:
“The Independent Payment Advisory Board, created under the health care law to help control Medicare costs, lacks flexibility to do much more than cut provider payments that would lead to a reduction in access to care…” (Ralph Lindeman, “IPAB Would Reduce Access to Care, Witnesses Tell Ways and Means Panel,” Bloomberg, 3/7/2012)
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