#IWANTREPEAL: Your Medicare According to Dems: Expand Unelected Bureaucrats’ Control, Limit Patient-Doctor Relationship

August 23, 2012

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), Rush Holt (NJ-12), Steve Israel (NY-03), Bill Keating (MA-09), Rick Larsen (WA-02), David Loebsack (IA-02), Nita Lowey (NY-17), Carolyn McCarthy (NY-04), Mike McIntyre (NC-07), Mike Michaud (ME-02), Bill Owens (NY-21), Bill Pascrell (NJ-09), Frank Pallone (NJ-06), Ed Perlmutter (CO-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)

Your Medicare According to Sutton: Expand Unelected Bureaucrats’ Control, Limit Patient-Doctor Relationship

Medicare Cutting Board Can Make Your Healthcare Choices without Facing Voters for Up to 12 Years

WASHINGTON — Personal Medicare choices have been under attack by Betty Sutton’s massive government takeover of healthcare and it’s only going to get worse. Under ObamaCare, an unelected, unaccountable board of 15 bureaucrats will be tasked with denying Ohio seniors access to their Medicare benefits without being held accountable to voters for up to 12 years – but how can Sutton still stand in support of it?

“Betty Sutton has put Ohio seniors and families under attack by letting the government pick winners and losers when it comes to healthcare,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay. “Sutton sacrificed Ohio seniors’ healthcare choices to an unelected board of government bureaucrats so she could double down on her big-government agenda. Ohio seniors deserve better.”

Sutton voted against repealing the board of 15 unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats. (H.R. 5, Roll Call #126, 3/22/12)

Members of the Medicare cutting board can remain unaccountable to seniors for up to 12 years. (Jack Ebeler, Tricia Neuman, and Juliette Cubanski, “The Independent Payment Advisory Board: A New Approach to Controlling Medicare Spending,” Kaiser Family Foundation, April 2011)

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