daveman
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ObamaCare ?death panel? faces growing opposition from Democrats - The Hill's Healthwatch
Well, how about that. Palin was indeed right.
ObamaCares cost-cutting board memorably called a death panel by Sarah Palin is facing growing opposition from Democrats who say it will harm people on Medicare.
Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean drew attention to the board designed to limit Medicare cost growth when he called for its repeal in an op-ed late last month.
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Public awareness of the board shot up last year when Palin called it a death panel, connecting the IPAB to her previous attacks on a proposal to encourage end-of-life planning in the Affordable Care Act.
Though I was called a liar for calling it like it is, many of these accusers finally saw that ObamaCare did in fact create a panel of faceless bureaucrats who have the power to make life and death decisions about healthcare funding, Palin wrote on Facebook.
This claim experienced a revival on the right after Dean published his op-ed, which argued that the board would ultimately ration care for Medicare patients.
The IPAB will be able to stop certain treatments its members do not favor by simply setting rates to levels where no doctor or hospital will perform them, Dean wrote in The Wall Street Journal.
Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean drew attention to the board designed to limit Medicare cost growth when he called for its repeal in an op-ed late last month.
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Public awareness of the board shot up last year when Palin called it a death panel, connecting the IPAB to her previous attacks on a proposal to encourage end-of-life planning in the Affordable Care Act.
Though I was called a liar for calling it like it is, many of these accusers finally saw that ObamaCare did in fact create a panel of faceless bureaucrats who have the power to make life and death decisions about healthcare funding, Palin wrote on Facebook.
This claim experienced a revival on the right after Dean published his op-ed, which argued that the board would ultimately ration care for Medicare patients.
The IPAB will be able to stop certain treatments its members do not favor by simply setting rates to levels where no doctor or hospital will perform them, Dean wrote in The Wall Street Journal.
Well, how about that. Palin was indeed right.
