Doctors Decry Dems’ Board of Medicare Slashing Bureaucrats
FYI, a similar version of this release below went out to the following districts: Shelley Adler (NJ-03), Pete Aguilar (CA-31), Jason Altmire (PA-12), Jeff Anderson (MN-08), George Badey (PA-07), John Barrow (GA-12), Ami Bera (CA-07), Tim Bishop (NY-01), Kathy Boockvar (PA-08), Leonard Boswell (IA-03), Bruce Braley (IA-01), Cheri Lois Capps (CA-24), Ben Chandler (KY-06), Andrei Cherney (AZ-09), David Cicilline (RI-01), Tarryl Clark (MN-08), Gerry Connolly (VA-11), Jim Costa (CA-16), Mark Critz (PA-12), David Crooks (IN-08), Peter DeFazio (OR-04), John Delaney (MD-06), Val Demings (FL-10), Joanne Dowdell (NH-01), Lois Frankel (FL-22), Pete Gallego (TX-23), Rob Garagiola (MD-06), John Garamendi (CA-03), Alan Grayson (FL-09), Raul Grijalva (AZ-07), Pam Gullenson (ND-AL), Clark Hall (AR-01), Jose Hernandez (CA-10), Brian Higgins (NY-26), Jim Himes (CT-04), Ruben Hinojosa (TX-15), Paul Hirschbiel (VA-02), Kathy Hochul (NY-27), Rush Holt (NJ-12), Steven Horsford (NV-04), Q. Byrum Hurst (AR-04), Steve Israel (NY-03), Bill Keating (MA-09), Ann Kirkpatrick (AZ-01), Larry Kissell (NC-08), Pat Kreitlow (WI-07), Ann McLane Kuster (NH-02), Rory Lancman (NY-06), Rick Larsen (WA-02), David Loebsack (IA-02), Alan Lowenthal (CA-47), Nita Lowey (NY-17), Dan Maffei (NY-24), Larry Maggi (PA-18), Carolyn McCarthy (NY-04), Gary McDowell (MI-01), Jerry McNerney (CA-09), Michael Michaud (ME-02), Joe Milkosi (CO-06), Brendan Mullen (IN-02), Patrick Murphy (FL-18), Mark Murphy (NY-11), Rick Nolan (MN-08), John Oceguera (NV-03), Bill Owens (NY-21), Sal Pace (CO-03), Frank Pallone (NJ-06), Ed Perlmutter (CO-07), Scott Peters (CA-52), Collin Peterson (MN-07), Chellie Pingree (ME-01), Nick Rahall (WV-03), Raul Ruiz (CA-36), Lori Saldaña (CA-52), Brandon Shaffer (CO-04), Carol Shea-Porter (NH-01), Kyrsten Sinema (AZ-09), Louise Slaughter (NY-25), Betty Sutton (OH-16), Mark Takano (CA-41), John Tierney (MA-06), Paul Tonko (NY-20), Manan Trivedi (PA-06), Niki Tsongas (MA-03), Christie Vilsack (IA-04), Bill Vinsko (PA-11), Jamie Wall (WI-08), Tim Walz (MN-01), Charlie Wilson (OH-06), John Yarmuth (KY-03)
Ohio Democrat’s Government Takeover of Healthcare Empowered 15 Bureaucrats in Washington to Deny Access to Care and Raise Costs for Seniors on Medicare
WASHINGTON — When Betty Sutton threw her support behind the government takeover of healthcare (Roll Call #14, 1/19/11), this included the controversial Independent Advisory Payment Board (IPAB) which allows a board of 15 unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats to deny access to care and raise costs for seniors on Medicare. It’s no wonder that doctor and patient groups across the country oppose this provision of Sutton’s healthcare takeover, since 15 bureaucrats in Washington would stand between seniors on Medicare and their doctors.
“With her support for the Democrats’ government takeover of healthcare, Betty Sutton seems to believe that 15 unaccountable bureaucrats in Washington are better equipped to make healthcare decisions than seniors and their doctors,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay. “It should come as no surprise that this Medicare-slashing panel in Sutton’s government healthcare takeover has attracted the opposition of dozens of medical groups representing over 400,000 doctors.”
Forty-one medical organizations representing 400,000 doctors and their patients have called for the repeal of IPAB:
“America’s physicians are also concerned that the strict budgetary targets and other limitations imposed on the IPAB will ultimately threaten the ability of our nation’s seniors and disabled to obtain the health care they need, when they need it.”
(Letter from Healthcare Stakeholders, House Energy and Commerce Committee, 3/5/12)The House will be voting to repeal IPAB later this week:
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