By Dan Calabrese —— Bio and Archives February 8, 2018
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One good development is that Republicans managed to include the repeal of ObamaCare’s Independent Advisory Payment Board, known as IPAB. The Obama central planners created this panel of bureaucrats to impose price controls on Medicare and it represents everything Americans hate about the Affordable Care Act: political rationing over individual choice. IPAB was designed so its decisions would be nearly impossible for Congress to overrule. Repeal gives Republicans another health-care achievement to tout in the 2018 midterms, in addition to zeroing out the law’s penalty for declining to buy insurance as part of tax reform.Of course, all this is predicated on the budget deal passing. There is going to be resistance in the House, and not for unworthy reasons. The best-case scenario is that the deal is reworked to much more effectively curtail spending, while still getting rid of IPAD. But either way, this is a very encouraging development. And if Democrats want, they can pretend that they just proved Palin wrong by getting rid of the thing they insisted never existed in the first place. Remember when the media used to claim the existence of the death panel had been "debunked"? What that meant is that a bunch of liberals denied it existed and that was good enough for them. The real debunkation comes when it's actually gone, and that moment is at hand.
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