ObamaCare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board is everything its critics say and worse. It is a democracy‐skirting, Congress‐blocking, powers‐unseparating, law‐entrenching, tax‐hiking, fund‐appropriating, price‐controlling, health‐care‐rationing, death‐paneling, technocrat‐thrilling, authoritarian, anti‐constitutional super‐legislature. Its very existence is testament to government incompetence. It stands as a milestone on the road to serfdom. The Congressional Research Service has now confirmed what HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius pretends not to know but what Diane Cohen and I explained here : That’s an awful lot of power to give any one person, particularly someone who has shown as much willingness to abuse her power as Sebelius has. I would also like the Congressional Research Service to address a feature of IPAB that Cohen and I first exposed. According to the statute, we write: You read that right. For more, read our paper, especially Box 3 on page 9. CRS, I’m interested to know what you think. Take a close look at the law and get back to me.
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