National Right to Life Applauds IPAB Repeal
The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of 50 state affiliates and more than 3,000 local chapters, today applauded congressional repeal of the
"Little attention was given to the IPAB's sweeping powers to limit not just Medicare spending, but also healthcare paid for with nongovernmental dollars," said
The board composed of 15 unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats was not only directed to limit Medicare spending, but also to limit private, nongovernmental spending on health care to a growth rate below medical inflation. Little attention was given to this more sweeping danger of rationing healthcare paid for with nongovernmental dollars. IPAB's powers went well beyond an effort to control Medicare spending. IPAB would have created drastic limits for the
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