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

IPAB’s Tough Road: Republicans Opt Not To Help Find Members-graysheet: 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., say, “Because the law will give IPAB’s 15 unelected, unaccountable individuals the ability to deny seniors access to innovative care, we respectfully decline to recommend appointments.”