Today, the House of Representatives is voting on H.R. 5 Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act of 2011to repeal the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) or as Governor Palin referred to them as “death panels.” The bill will NOT repeal the entire law. While the original bill initially focused on IPAB only, the bill now has medical malpractice reform attached to it, which would take the authority to create tort law (i.e. medical malpractice) from the state and hand it over the federal government. This is an outright violation of the 10th Amendment.
You need to decide if you want your Congressman to support this legislation or not.
Here is the good, the bad, and the ugly.
