The House Ways and Means Committee agreed in a voice vote to repeal the Independent Payment Advisory Board, the second House committee to do so this week, according to a report from The Hill.
On Tuesday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee approved the measure to abolish the IPAB.
House Republicans have the ramped up the campaign to repeal the IPAB — the 15-member panel that would find savings in the Medicare program under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — in an effort to increase scrutiny over the PPACA as the Supreme Court reviews the law later this month, according to the report.
A recent report from the Congressional Budget Office (pdf) shows that repealing the IPAB would not have any budgetary impact in 2012, but it would increase direct spending to the national deficit by $3.1 billion between 2013 and 2022. The CBO's estimate represented the expected value of a broad range of IPAB spending reductions over that period.
On Tuesday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee approved the measure to abolish the IPAB.
House Republicans have the ramped up the campaign to repeal the IPAB — the 15-member panel that would find savings in the Medicare program under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — in an effort to increase scrutiny over the PPACA as the Supreme Court reviews the law later this month, according to the report.
A recent report from the Congressional Budget Office (pdf) shows that repealing the IPAB would not have any budgetary impact in 2012, but it would increase direct spending to the national deficit by $3.1 billion between 2013 and 2022. The CBO's estimate represented the expected value of a broad range of IPAB spending reductions over that period.
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