The Independent Payment Advisory Board, better known as the "rationing board" or the "death panel" may see its own demise. Never being a part of the House Obamacare bill, IPAB has come under increasing bipartisan opposition. Under Obamacare IPAB would force savings in Medicare spending while the rest of the health care sector would pretty much run its course. When Obamacare proponents speak of "bending the cost curve" the only bending capabilities they have established are directed toward Medicare recipients. In short senior citizens are being honored with more than their share of sacrifice while many who have never paid a nickel into the system will benefit the most.
"The president’s new health care law already ended Medicare as we know it,” Paul Ryan said on the House floor this month, borrowing from the Democratic rhetoric on his plan. “It does two things: It raids Medicare; and it rations Medicare.”
For all the reported ineptitude of House Republicans, a growing number of House Democrats have called for the untimely death of the death panel.
"Abdicating this responsibility, whether to insurance companies or an unelected commission, would undermine our ability to represent the needs of the seniors and disabled in our communities,” Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-Pa.), a prominent supporter of most of the reform law, wrote in a letter to colleagues in April.
The National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, a prominent supporter of the law, is now actively lobbying for its repeal, too
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