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Rep. Latta Votes To Strengthen Medicare By Repealing Medicare Decision-Making Board

Washington, June 24, 2015 | Dan Alfaro (202-225-6405)

Yesterday, U.S. Congressman Bob Latta (R-OH) joined colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives in passing a key bill in support of seniors’ access to affordable, quality health care.

H.R. 1190, the Protecting Seniors’ Access to Medicare Act of 2015, eliminates the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), a body comprised of 15 unelected officials with authority to unilaterally cut Medicare spending.

“This is a board of unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats with the ability to make decisions that will impact the lives and care of tens of thousands of Medicare patients.  This unchecked authority to control funding gives enormous power to dictate what type of care a patient receives,” said Rep. Latta. “Even President Obama’s former Budget Director has called IPAB the ‘single biggest yielding of power to an independent entity since the creation of the Federal Reserve’. IPAB must be repealed.”

The bill, first introduced by Rep. Linda Sánchez (D-CA) and Rep. Roe (R-TN), passed with support in favor of eliminating bureaucratic control over the cuts to Medicare spending.

“Physicians and patients are in the best position to decide their own health care – a fact recognized today in this vote. I look forward to working with my colleagues in the Senate to ensure healthcare is left to the individual and to the experts, not the Washington Bureaucracy.”


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