IPAB’s Tough Road: Republicans Opt Not To Help Find Members

House Speaker Boehner and Senate Majority Leader McConnell “respectfully decline” the president’s request to submit names of individuals to serve on the Medicare Independent Payment Advisory Board.

Demonstrating just how difficult it will be to form the Medicare Independent Payment Advisory Board, the top Republicans in the House and Senate have refused to recommend individuals to serve on the Medicare cost-cutting panel, as requested by President Barack Obama.

In a May 9 letter to the president, House Speaker John Boehner, Ohio, and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, Ky.,...

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