“I am standing up for seniors in my congressional district who rely on Medicare. We will not give unelected Washington bureaucrats unlimited power to ration health care payments for Medicare treatment. We are fully repealing the Independent Payment Advisory Board and challenge Republicans and Democrats in the Senate to help protect America’s seniors.”
Today the U.S. House of Representatives voted to repeal another controversial component of the President’s unpopular health insurance law, the Independent Payment Advisory Board. U.S. Congressman Kevin Brady (R-Texas), who leads the House Ways & Means subcommittee on Health, released the following statement about H.R. 1190, The Protecting Seniors’ Access to Medicare Act of 2015.
“I am standing up for seniors in my congressional district who rely on Medicare. We will not give unelected Washington bureaucrats unlimited power to ration health care payments for Medicare treatment. We are fully repealing the Independent Payment Advisory Board and challenge Republicans and Democrats in the Senate to help protect America’s seniors.”
Background: The Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), created in the Affordable Care Act, has the power to cut Medicare’s payments for treatments without Congress’s approval. The future cuts won’t ration payments to seniors but will ration reimbursement for treatment to senior’s doctors and other health care providers.
