ndr. david winter doctor, the plans were cancelled because the affordable care is better. now there is a outcry and so things should be able to revert in the president s mind to three weeks ago? first of all he didn t address the 170 million with the employer s plans draft said 45 or 70 percent with employer based plans are going to have to change. assuming that covers that and everybody will keep the plan, i am saying as a physician, physicians in the country already have a problem because the insurances have been paying us too little and ipad coming out. independent payment advisory
friends last week. take a look at this. oh my goodness! it s the last second. that s the last second. elisabeth hasselbeck falling out. look how happy those girls are in their balloons! elisabeth: we were happy. steve: elisabeth kicking the boys butt. but how will she do against our nation s toughest heroes? elisabeth: you re about to find out. the advisory board of team r.w.b., an organization that rebill taeuts our nation s rehabilitates our nation s veterans by keeping them active and connected. i took over the 5k portion. take a look. anyone who knows me knows i love to run. when there s meeting behind the miles, that is what is wha it is that s what it is about. i run 5k s marathons and
middle class and whrorbg o o and hard-working families. this is another new tax increase. elisabeth: one thing i know that s important to seniors is that, their relationship to their doctor. it was promised no someone going to come between their doctor and their health. what is the truth? that is something is important to senior citizens. the health care bill creates something called independent payment advisory board also known as ipab which is essentially 15 unelected unaccountable bureaucrats whose sole purpose is to decide what medicare will or will not cover. that relationship between you and your doctor, where they would decide what treatment was best for you will now have a bureaucrat to decide is it something they re going to cover or not. i want to add one final thing. we re talking about our greatest generation, our nation s senior citizens. they sacrificed their entire lives for us. they fought in wars.
coverage, perhaps excellent health coverage, and at the same time take the financial burden off the city and town. reporter: he wasn t sure how it would play out but emphasized the positive. one of the benefits of the affordable care act is making sure those americans that don t get health insurance through their employer are able for the first time to go in the open market through these market places and purchase high quality, affordable health insurance. reporter: former dnc chairman howard dean says a component of the health care law, independent payment advisory board is a major problem. dean writes in the wall street journal it is essentially a health care rationing body, will be able to stop certain treatments its members do not favor by sip plel setting rates to levels where no doctor or hospital will perform them.
him. but the only time we ve really taken it on the chin is 2010. now, that was a really bad loss because they won enough state legislatures so they could redistrict and put the far right in charge of say north carolina and texas and places like that, north dakota. but we ve got a ways to go. the president won a fairly overwhelming victory in 2012. and we re going to see how 2014 shakes out. i am reasonably optimistic if about 2014 despite the gerry mandering. i think the american public are going to vote no on the republican agenda which is say no to everything. you ve got a specific criticism of the affordable care act and you write this. one major problem is the so-called independent payment advisory board, the ipab is essentially a health care rationing body. now, already, headlines from the right are screaming, howard dean admits obama care includes death panels. so would you like to explain the