[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2118 Placed on Calendar Senate (PCS)]

                                                       Calendar No. 326
112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2118

 To remove unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats from seniors' personal 
 health decisions by repealing the Independent Payment Advisory Board.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 16, 2012

Mr. Cornyn (for himself, Mr. Burr, Mr. Coburn, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Blunt, 
 Mr. Grassley, Mr. Lee, Mr. Paul, Mr. Coats, Mr. Inhofe, Mr. Isakson, 
Mr. Risch, Mr. Heller, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Cochran, Mr. Rubio, Mr. Moran, 
 Mr. Johanns, Mr. Thune, and Mr. Crapo) introduced the following bill; 
                     which was read the first time

                           February 17, 2012

            Read the second time and placed on the calendar

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                                 A BILL


 
 To remove unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats from seniors' personal 
 health decisions by repealing the Independent Payment Advisory Board.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Health Care Bureaucrats Elimination 
Act''.

SEC. 2. REMOVAL OF UNELECTED, UNACCOUNTABLE BUREAUCRATS FROM SENIORS' 
              PERSONAL HEALTH DECISIONS BY REPEALING THE INDEPENDENT 
              PAYMENT ADVISORY BOARD.

    Effective as if included in the enactment of the Patient Protection 
and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148), the provisions of, and 
amendments made by, sections 3403 and 10320 of such Act are repealed.

SEC. 3. OFFSET.

    The table specified in clause (i) of section 36B(f)(2)(B) of the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended to read as follows:


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  ``If the household income (expressed as a percent of
                   poverty line) is:                                 The applicable dollar amount is:
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Less than 200 percent                                    $600
At least 200 percent and less than 300 percent           $1,500
At least 300 percent but less than 350 percent           $2,500
At least 350 percent but less than 400 percent           $3,100''.
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                                                       Calendar No. 326

112th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                                S. 2118

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

 To remove unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats from seniors' personal 
 health decisions by repealing the Independent Payment Advisory Board.

_______________________________________________________________________

                           February 17, 2012

            Read the second time and placed on the calendar