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The Cato Institute released a study entitled, The Independent Payment Advisory Board: PPACA’s Anti-Constitutional and Authoritarian Super-Legislature, authored by Diane Cohen and Michael Cannon, which states that once the “unelected government officials on this board submit a legislative proposal to Congress, it automatically becomes law.”
The Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) is comprised of “doctors and patient advocates would be nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate.”
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), a.k.a. Obamacare, requires that the Secretary of Health and Human Services (SHHS) implement the proposal. Denying its execution would necessitate the House, Senate and President agree on an alternate plan.
The IPAB’s plan would become law without Congressional approval, oversight, or even be subject to a presidential veto. Once this proposal is submitted, it is law.
The IPAB was the brain child of the Commonwealth Fund ; a private foundation that targets “society’s most vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, minority Americans, young children, and elderly adults.”
The IPAB will be enabled to declare:
• Policies regarding healthcare to Congress
• Recommendations on costs, mitigating waste, prioritizing disbursement of care
• Impose taxes whether the US government pays the medical bills or not
• Ration medical care to Americans as they see fit
Congress, having the power to accept the IPAB’s recommendations can either act on them or let the SHHS do so.
The IPAB, an independent panel, is likening to those in the United Nations (UN); where organizations have oversight panels that decide the direction of the organization and empower it. The only governing body the IPAB will have to answer to is itself.
The most authoritative aspect of the legislation is that “[I]f Congress misses that repeal window, PPACA prohibits Congress from ever altering an IPAB proposal.”
The legislative window for repeals extends to 2017. The Congressional Research Service has falsely interpreted this clause of complete control.
Failure to repeal in Congress by 2017 results in absolute power given to the IPAB by 2020 with no ability of Congress to change that fact. Any law the IPAB writes becomes effectual regardless of any member of the US government’s rejection of it and the over-reaching power extends to the Secretary of Health and Human Services who becomes an executive of the IPAB.
Furthermore, the IPAB would become as powerful as the executive branch of our government, with the right to appropriate funds within the SHHS’ own department.
All the while the IPAB is protected from Congressional oversight and interference.
This authoritarian policy is a first step toward encompassing dictatorship; a plateau that Obama has been teetering on for quite some time. His implementation of UN agendas and policies as evidenced in his executive orders and legislation signed and supported display on obvious trend toward removing the Constitutional rights of our American Republic and replace them with a cleared path toward integration of one world government.
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3 comments:
...and this has all come about via the staged circus act of partisan bickering.
On the rare occasions I allow myself to listen to the trash spewed forth by the various ass-puppets of the MSM, whenever they're not outright trying to flog the masses into a pro-war frenzy they are constantly going back and forth about how the state of the country and the reason things can't be done for the average citizen is because "the republicans are blocking such and such legislation", or "they won't agree to back it because it will hurt the wealthy blah blah blah".
(There was a time I believed this monkey show (long ago), but wisdom has since shown me the error of such a belief.)
They're constantly trying to sell the idea that the balance of power, that government at one time represented, is nothing more than a hindrance now, and that we'd all be better off with a unified power structure that instantly passes into law anything it thinks up, because it is ultimately for "the good of the people".
This IPAB is just one more step towards an unified global government that has absolutely zero oversight or accountability. And most importantly, it is one more reason to see the creatures that come up with stuff like this as the greatest threat to ALL life on this planet - not just American lives.
Dale asks: Why should I believe the right wing Cato Institute over the Congressional Research Service?
Congress has the power to repeal or amend proposals of IPAB, if it acts in reasonable time frame. So if it does not, it is the fault of Congress for doing nothing. There is a price for a Congress which does not understand its constitutional mandate to make laws, not to block them or do nothing.
I think fear of healthcare is the new form of paranoia. God, please don't ram healthcare down my throat! Healthcare is tyranny, etc.
In fact, the Healthcare Act is a conservative invention of the Heritage Foundation and has been promoted by pols like Gingrich and Romney (who established it in Mass). Since the very popular public option was eliminated by the conservatives in the Senate, the plan has become unpopular, as it has no effective way to reduce costs and gives the private industry, which adds nothing to the value of healthcare but has been taking 1/3 of the trillions yearly spent (twice to three times more than the other 35 peer nations with national programs) 30 million new captive customers, and will now be limited to only 20% overhead. Medicare, by contrast, has an overhead of 2-3%.
A more apt name would be Conservacare. If there was a public option, the plan would have high approval (between 60-80% of Americans wanted the choice of a public option).
It's not that government has taken over healthcare (it hasn't: growth under the Act will grow from current 44% govt healthcare (medicare and medicaid) to 47%. But the private non-productive and parasitical private industry will have 30 million new govt-subsidized customers to fleece.
This article is propaganda for the conservative attacks on a program they invented; in fact they love it (when the bill passed, the insurance industry rallied on Wall St. hooray).
Once again, a gift to the private tycoons who drain off nearly 1/3 of our healthcare money is portrayed as a threat....to delude the dupes who will benefit from healthcare but are brainwashed to hate it. I hate healthcare! Who needs it! I can treat myself, like any self-reliant individualist.
What a tragedy. We know what works: single payer is 1/2 to 1/3 cheaper with better results and can either be socialized (doctors work for govt as in VA or UK) or not (as in most single payer systems, where doctors and hospitals are private, as in Medicare).
There are over 35 successful models to learn from. Only an idiot (nation) would refuse to learn from such vast experience. Tragic. And so we die younger, live sicker, and pay more. And fear the very program which will give us better health at a lower cost.
The above article is a propaganda piece which fails to provide any evidence for its assertions and chooses a most partisan source as its authority. The solution, given the conservative gutting of a public option, is for individual states to have single payer systems.
This is how it started in Canada, and not even the conservative leaders (in any of the 35 peer nations) are willing to suggest dismantling a system which costs the Canadians half as much (and no workers comp to burden business) and with better health results. Better/cheaper: only massive propaganda lies can argue against that.
That's putting a lot of trust in just one person. Power continues to be centralized to just a gesture of the president. There really needs to be a national referendum for the people to decentralize this power.
We are just a few years away from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoPpw7DNzCY
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