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“IPAB will consist of 15 members appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate. Each member can serve up to two consecutive six-year terms. If the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services determine that Medicare spending will exceed a preset growth target, then IPAB is empowered to make cost-cutting recommendations.
The Obama Administration’s newly released 2013 budget proposal actually ratchets down the target growth rate — which means that IPAB will more than likely be called upon to start slashing.
There are some limits on what IPAB can propose. The panel is not allowed to make any changes to Medicare’s fee-for-service structure or to adjust the level of benefits that seniors receive.
The Board is empowered to try some “innovative” approaches to modernizing the program. But these approaches have all been described by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) as achieving only marginal cost savings.
Realistically, the Board has only one legitimate cost-cutting tool that can get Medicare under the targets — lowering reimbursement rates for participating doctors, nurses, and hospitals. And since IPAB has to reduce overall Medicare expenditures by focusing on just this one area, these cuts will likely be very deep.”
HERE COMES THE DEATH PANELS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!RIGHT UP FRONT, NO WAITING AROUND……….SARAH PALIN WAS SPOT ON FROM THE GETGO…………
These “reimbursement rate cuts” will force the providers to offer less and/or poorer care to their medicare patients. Either that or they will bail out to a fee-for-services type practice. Doctors won’t put up with smaller and smaller payments in the future before they outright refuse new medicare patients altogether. I pity those who’s lives depend on IPAB. They are likely doomed to die earlier of a slow death. Death Panels indeed! Obamacare is already a goldmine to insurance companies that are now pushing add-on coverage plans for the to-be gutted medicare system. AARP expects to make a billion dollars on new coverage insurance in forthcoming years. No wonder they endorsed it! What a bunch of 2 faced liars claiming they’re on the senior’s side! NOT!
President Obama’s Medical Board: A Backdoor Path to Health Rationing http://t.co/tkqQhQMU
Here is another example of how Obama is getting ready to do his Martial Law crap to get himself back in the WH for as long as he wants. I am telling all of you that with this Medical Board which is a bacdoor path to Health Rationing has got to be stopped. Everyone needs to call the WH everyday all day long about all this crap and call John Boehner, Darrell Issa, or whoever you can call to get these evil deeds stop. This is another way of Obama’s takeover of the American people. Why this can’t be stopped I will never know. Time is of the essence. So America stand up for what you are suppose to and make sure you don’t have to face the Lord and let him see that you did nothing to help our country and him. These evil people will cut our religious beliefs, churchs, and everything else out as soon as 2013 gets here, so I’m asking all of you to stand up and do what the Lord would want all of us to do. I don’t believe it will be long until our Lord returns, but he doesn’t expect us to sit down and give up.
Ok seniors you better step up the the plate and vote thIS mother so and so out of office, cause if you don’t WE BE DEAD, AND OVOMIT’S GOING TO PULL THE TRIGGER, SO LET’S TURN THE TABLES ON THE FILTHY SOB