WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1190, the Protecting Seniors’ Access to Medicare Act of 2015, a bill to repeal Obamacare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), which is a board of 15 unelected officials who have the power to cut Medicare’s payments for treatments without Congress’s approval. Upon passage, Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) issued the following statement.
“Medicare is more than a program. It’s a promise. This unelected panel exists only to take control away from patients and rations care-and it’s seniors who will suffer the consequences. Seniors have worked hard and paid into this program all their lives, and they deserve a secure retirement. The way to strengthen Medicare is to give seniors more control. Not to hand it over to a bunch of unelected bureaucrats."
