[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 7]
[House]
[Pages 10247-10248]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             REPEAL THE INDEPENDENT PAYMENT ADVISORY BOARD

  (Mrs. BLACK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Speaker, in 2010, President Obama described his 
signature healthcare law as ``a new set of rules that treats everyone 
fairly and honestly.''
  But under President Obama's Independent Payment Advisory Board, also 
known as IPAB, a panel of 15 unelected bureaucrats would be tasked with 
cutting Medicare costs in a way that could

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deny care to seniors who need it the most.
  Now, I have been a nurse for over 40 years, but you don't have to be 
in health care as a professional to understand that there is nothing 
fair about that. Even Democrat Governor Howard Dean called IPAB ``a 
healthcare rationing board'' that should be scrapped.
  Mr. Speaker, no senior needs a Washington bureaucrat standing between 
them and their doctor.
  Vote ``yes'' on H.R. 1190, and let's repeal IPAB today.

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