Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Unaccountable healthcare 'experts'

Unaccountable healthcare 'experts' (OneNewsNow.com): buried deep within the healthcare law's 2,801 pages of foggy prose is a provision to create a panel of bureaucrats with final authority on what treatments will and will not be paid for by Medicare, the federal insurance program that serves nearly 48 million seniors and disabled individuals. It's called the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), a 15-member committee whose cost-cutting edicts are not subject to review by the courts or the people.

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