U.S. Senators Dr. Tom Coburn, MD (R-OK) and Dr. John Barrasso, MD (R-WY) have released a new report examining the impact and consequences of ObamaCare Their report titled, “Warning: Side Effects, A Check-Up on the Federal Health Law”, is frightening as the Senator/Doctors details the consequences of this law.

Drs. Coburn and Barrasso report states: “Over the past twenty four months, American families have learned more about the President’s health care law and do not like what they see. Higher insurance premiums. A coming state budget-busting Medicaid expansion. Fewer choices. Less freedom and more government interference. Cuts to Medicare by unelected government bureaucrats. Thousands of pages of regulations. An unconstitutional mandate to buy health insurance. Penalties on employers threatening job creation. Billions of dollars in tax hikes and, once fully implemented, $2.6 trillion in new health care spending.”

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Outgoing CMS Administrator Donald Berwick, someone who once romanced rationing, is stepping down from his post. While some in the media may portray him as a martyr given his inability to obtain Senate confirmation to the post, Avik Roy puts the situation in proper perspective. Roy states that contrary to MSM myth that Berwick was "done in by Republican intransigence. He was done in by presidential cowardice. And therein lies a microcosm of everything that’s been wrong with Obamacare."

Read Roy's full article at National Review Online, here.

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Grace-Marie Turner writes for the American Spectator that Obama has a new election strategy to deal with the issue of ObamaCare - silence.  Read her full article here.

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Kevin Mooney of The Pelican Post has written an exceptional article explaining how ObamaCare creates IPAB, an unelected board of bureaucrats, who will have the power to impose health care cuts and effectively ration care. Most troubling about IPAB is that their decisions cannot be overturned by a majority in Congress. Mooney provides about a lawsuit in Arizona, brought by the Goldwater Institute, challenging IPAB's constitutionality because "IPAB has unprecedented authority to make public policy without any meaningful oversight from the legislative, judicial or executive branches of government, according to the suit."

Diane Cohen, of Goldwater, states: "IPAB has unprecedented authority to make public policy without any meaningful oversight from the legislative, judicial or executive branches of government, according to the suit."

As Docs4PatientCare has noted, IPAB is one avenue by which ObamaCare moves the United States towards socialized medicine where government will be able to ration care. In Britain, doctors are instructed to ration life-saving, early detection cancer screenings to save money. 

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