S. 2118 (112th): Health Care Bureaucrats Elimination Act

S 2118 PCS

To remove unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats from seniors’ personal health decisions by repealing the Independent Payment Advisory Board.

February 16, 2012

Mr. CORNYN (for himself, Mr. BURR, Mr. COBURN, Mr. ROBERTS, Mr. BLUNT, Mr. GRASSLEY, Mr. LEE, Mr. PAUL, Mr. COATS, Mr. INHOFE, Mr. ISAKSON, Mr. RISCH, Mr. HELLER, Mr. BARRASSO, Mr. COCHRAN, Mr. RUBIO, Mr. MORAN, Mr. JOHANNS, Mr. THUNE, and Mr. CRAPO) introduced the following bill; which was read the first time

February 17, 2012

Read the second time and placed on the calendar

To remove unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats from seniors’ personal health decisions by repealing the Independent Payment Advisory Board.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ‘Health Care Bureaucrats Elimination Act’.

SEC. 2. REMOVAL OF UNELECTED, UNACCOUNTABLE BUREAUCRATS FROM SENIORS’ PERSONAL HEALTH DECISIONS BY REPEALING THE INDEPENDENT PAYMENT ADVISORY BOARD.

Effective as if included in the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148), the provisions of, and amendments made by, sections 3403 and 10320 of such Act are repealed.

SEC. 3. OFFSET.

The table specified in clause (i) of section 36B(f)(2)(B) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended to read as follows:

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‘If the household income (expressed as a percent of poverty line) is: The applicable dollar amount is: 

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                                                Less than 200 percent                             $600 

                       At least 200 percent and less than 300 percent                           $1,500 

                       At least 300 percent but less than 350 percent                           $2,500 

                       At least 350 percent but less than 400 percent                         $3,100’. 

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Calendar No. 326

To remove unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats from seniors’ personal health decisions by repealing the Independent Payment Advisory Board.

February 17, 2012

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