ObamaCare Death Panels Are Back

Oh yes, Death Panels were in ObamaCare from day one. In spite of what the left-wing media told you, Death Panels were always part of the ObamaCare master plan.


Stanley Kurtz, writing for National Review Online tells us: "Rationing, death panels, socialism, and deception. It’s all there. ... IPAB is the real death panel... a body of unelected bureaucrats with the power to cut off care through arbitrary rules.... IPAB is the key to socialized, single-payer health-care, which is and has always been Obama’s ultimate goal."

And David Catron with The American Spectator says; the Independent Payment Advisory Board's (IPAB) sole purpose is "to cut funding for some health care services seniors now take for granted. And those cuts will kill people."

And Those Cuts Will Kill People.

Of course, the fact that Death Panels were hidden in the 2000-plus-page monster called ObamaCare should come as no shock to right-thinking Americans; but what may come as a shock is that legislation that would REPEAL Obama's Death Panels has been gathering dust in our GOP-led House of Representatives since January.

H.R. 452, the Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2011, introduced by Tennessee Republican David Roe, is a simple piece of legislation, it's only one paragraph long, and its only purpose is to repeal the ObamaCare Death Panels:

"Effective as of the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148), sections 3403 and 10320 of such Act (including the amendments made by such sections) are repealed, and any provision of law amended by such sections is hereby restored as if such sections had not been enacted into law."

And yet, H.R. 452 is sitting in conference committee... gathering dust... simply waiting to die an unceremonious death. Our Republican Leadership has not brought it to the floor for a vote. Why not?

H.R. 452 has 93 co-sponsors and bi-partisan support. And Speaker of the House John Boehner, the man who promise us that the GOP would try to REPEAL, DEFUND and DISMANTLE ObamaCare, piece by piece if necessary, HAS THE POWER to bring this legislation to the floor of the House of Representatives for a straight up-or-down vote.

That point bears repeating. The Speaker of the House, John Boehner, has the POWER to bring ANY bill to the floor of the House for an up-or-down vote. Democrats can't block him... Democrats can't stop him.

So what's the hold-up? What gives? 16 Democrats have joined 77 Republicans as co-sponsors of this legislation and H.R. 452 would pass with a huge bi-partisan vote tomorrow.

Why is only one Member of the GOP Leadership listed as a co-sponsor of H.R. 452 (Jeb Hensarling)? Why have Mr. Boehner, Mr. Cantor and Mr. McCarthy NOT jumped on board in support of H.R. 452 and why hasn't Mr. Boehner brought H.R. 452 to the floor for a vote?

We'd like to get an answer to those questions as well and with your help, that's exactly what we're going to do. It's time to remind our elected officials that they made promises to the American people... promises that must be kept.

Contact the Speaker of the House, John Boehner at: http://www.speaker.gov/contact/

Walter Jones at: https://jones.house.gov/ContactForm/default.aspx