Independent Payment Advisory Board news and information

Here's to diving below the overheated healthcare rhetoric. It's widely assumed that tonight's vice presidential debate will be a health policy wonkfest (with zingers) that submerges deeply into the numerous conflicting approaches of the two presidential tickets.
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Do you catch more advocacy groups with honey than vinegar? One House Republican is trying to win over a key supporter of the federal healthcare law.
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Calling the 2010 healthcare law “unworkable, unpopular and unaffordable,” a physician lawmaker drew applause from a lunch audience at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., when he said it's time for the country to regain its freedom, repeal the 2010 healthcare law and...
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There must be something about the July heat in Washington that gets House Republicans fired up about the Independent Payment Advisory Board, a yet-to-be appointed panel the 2010 healthcare reform law created to control the per-capita growth rate in Medicare.
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Days before House members vote on legislation to overturn the 2010 healthcare law, the top Senate Republican has called on his Democrat colleagues to join the repeal effort, while a House Democrat says only a small percentage of people would pay anything for refusing to buy health insurance.
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The U.S. Supreme Court's historic decision to uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act protects the expansion of healthcare insurance to the uninsured and preserves important healthcare improvements that will benefit countless Americans. The law ends insurance company denials because...
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It's time to take down your bet on Medicare and Medicaid reform happening this year. The combination of slow spending growth and the upcoming fall election has made reform of the two programs a long shot for the remainder of 2012.
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The House Judiciary Committee has approved a proposal that includes earlier-passed medical liability reform legislation as a way to find savings to avoid arbitrary, across-the-board cuts to federal programs next year. Last month, the House passed a budget bill that also requested six House...
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The House Judiciary Committee has approved a proposal that includes earlier-passed medical liability reform legislation as a way to find savings to avoid arbitrary, across-the-board cuts...
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Democratic and Republican lawmakers laid out conflicting long-term markers for healthcare spending on Capitol Hill last week as policymakers continue to battle over the federal deficit and government spending.
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