Health Care Bill info remember the battle about Obama’s heath care bill and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s words: “Let’s pass the bill so we can see what’s in it.” Well, we are starting to learn what this bill contains.

This bill created an Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) to oversee Medicare and decide what and how much Medicare will pay for. Health Care Bill went to great lengths to shelter this agency, one of 159 new agencies created by this bill. IPAB creates a 15-member, unelected board sheltered from congressional review and this board will control your Medicare. The board’s 15 members will be chosen by the president.

Health Care Bill is casting seniors aside as this board decides what care is unnecessary, as it cuts health care spending for the elderly and disabled, as it moves along in the future years to rationing.

“The promise of health care reform has been that if you like your current coverage, you can keep it. We are concerned that this proposal will break this promise by increasing health care costs for families and employers across the country and significantly disrupting the quality coverage on which millions of Americans rely today.

“The lack of system-wide cost containment is a missed opportunity. Without a greater focus on health care costs, families and employers will not be able to afford coverage and health care costs will rise at a rate much faster than the overall economy is able to sustain.

“We share the concerns that doctors, hospitals, employers, and patients have all raised about the significant disruption a new government-run plan would have on the current health care system. A new government-run plan would bankrupt hospitals, dismantle employer coverage, exacerbate cost-shifting from Medicare and Medicaid, and ultimately increase the federal deficit.

“Estimates show that a government-run plan would cause millions of people to lose their current coverage. Moreover, massive Medicare Advantage cuts would cause millions of seniors to lose their Medicare Advantage coverage altogether, while millions more would face benefit cuts and higher out-of-pocket costs.

“Health plans strongly support comprehensive, bipartisan health care reform and have proposed sweeping insurance market reforms and new consumer protections to ensure that every American has guaranteed access to affordable health care coverage. Experience in the states has shown that insurance market reforms must be paired with an effective personal coverage requirement for these reforms to work. While this legislation recognizes the key linkage of market reforms and a personal coverage requirement, more needs to be done to ensure coverage is affordable and our health care system is sustainable.

“As the process progresses, health plans will continue to work to advance bipartisan legislation this year that will cover all Americans, make coverage more affordable, and improve quality.”