in. that s really important in my region and also important for all across the southern tier including puerto rico suffering from devastating natural disasters from this year. we have opioid funding that is a huge crisis in my area. our public health centers, hospitals are being recovered. we re repealing a part of obamacare that a lot of people don t like. the independent payment advisory board. that will go on the wayside. it is a very hard decision but when you are on the field and you have to score you get four chances to get a first down and it takes several first downs in many cases to get a touchdown and score. i m concerned if we rely on hail mary s we ll end up with nothing and hurt our communities. we have to look at incremental progress going forward. i like the fact the speaker and mitch mcconnell and finally we have something out of chuck schumer.
and wrote the first version of the affordable health care act. i don t know where that is. it s sitting on a shelf. we went day and night and day and night and is day and night. i worried about something i called the rationers. i m talking about the independent payment advisory board, ipab, the center for simi, and the new coverage authorities given to the u.s. preventive services task force, and i would also mention the patient center outcomes research institute, which is called cori. not many people are aware of these. i even went to the floor of the senate and had four people riding a horse and called them the four horses of regulatory apocalyp apocalypse, but i m worried about it, and the provisions which could interrupt the doctor-patient relationship allowing the government to district of columbia take what coverage you can receive. can you share some of any
committee and relative first version of the affordable care act, i don t know where that mark is today. it s sitting on a shelf somewhere. but we went day and night and day and night. and i was worried about something i called the rashners. i m talking about the independent payment advisory board, i pab, semi, that s a wonderful acronym, and the new coverage authorities given to the u.s. preventing services task force and i would also mention patient center outcome research institute. not many people are aware of these. i haven t went to the floor of the senate and had four people riding a horse and called them the four horses of regulatory apocalypse. but i am worried about and the provisions which could interrupt the doctor/patient relationship allowing the government to dictate what coverage you can receive. can you share some of any
rising from the dead like a zombie apocalypse. since the supreme court s decision protecting the law, right wingers bringing back their favorite obama scare tactic. and i m telling you, death panels will exist. because you know what that death panel s going to be? it s going to be called a morphine drip. you get your morphine drip. it depresses your respiration and, guess what you die. it s not just the right-wing media. this zombie infestation has made it to the halls of congress. the independent payment advisory board, that s going to be the entity that decides whether a group of people live or die. people are going to be dying because of obamacare because they re going to be denied coverage. the kinds of illnesses that threaten to kill people that are expensive to treat, that s where they re going to tell you to get your affairs in order because they re not going to provide coverage and you re going to die. people will be denied
the independent payment advisory board. you ll see other issues reinstatement of the 40 hour work week. you ll see incremental reforms that will be proffered by the house and the senate. i think that s where we re going to go. do you think anymore votes on repeal? we ve had four or five dozen of them. do you think there will be any more votes on repeal of this thing? a situation if republicans were to win the white house in 2016 and have control of the house and senate theoretically then the idea of replacing obamacare with something entirely different would be possible. do you see that on the horize an at all? as long as we vea president named obama, obamacare will not be repealed. we all understand that. between now and the end of his administration you ll see incremental changes. if the white house were to go to the republicans, to republican nominee, well then what would happen is that we would likely have a debate but unless there are 60 votes in the senate i still think it wo