[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3733]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              REPEAL IPAB

  (Mr. FLEMING asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. FLEMING. Mr. Speaker, we now have reached a landmark, 2 years 
since the passage of ObamaCare. More and more, the American people have 
been hearing about something called IPAB, the Independent Payment 
Advisory Board--the centerpiece to ObamaCare and its inevitable 
rationing of health care.
  This is a board of 15 unelected, unaccountable and not necessarily 
health care-experienced individuals who will have more power than even 
Congress, itself, when it comes to deciding what care every American 
will receive. The board members will not be under congressional 
oversight and will not answer the phone when you call to complain. 
Americans agree by 57 percent to 38 percent margins ObamaCare and IPAB 
should be fully repealed.
  So far, Democrats have been unwilling to listen to the outcry from 
the American people. They will have yet another chance to respond to 
``we the people's'' unhappiness with ObamaCare by voting with 
Republicans this week to repeal IPAB. And, hopefully, they will be 
willing to vote to repeal ObamaCare, itself, in its entirety when it is 
brought up for a vote sometime in the future.

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