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With the PPACA's 159 new agencies, commissions, panels and commissions, it is very difficult to predict with certainty the extent of damage about to be unleashed on the doctor-patient relationship and the future of freedom of choice in the personal healthcare decisions of Americans. Much focus and scrutiny has been leveled at the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), perhaps the most egregious and controversial component of the president's healthcare law. Although the law was passed without any Republican support, the concerns and criticism of the IPAB are bipartisan and merit understanding by the public and our lawmakers.

In his most recent publication, D4PC President, Hal Scherz, MD, explains in detail the unprecedented power granted to this politically appointed, unaccountable group of bureaucrats who along with the Secretary of HHS, will essentially control the entire US healthcare system.  

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Welcome to D4PC "Morning Rounds", your daily review of healthcare news and information from Washington, DC and around the nation. These briefings will keep you up to date on recent developments and our effort to replace the PPACA with patient-centered reforms that protect the doctor-patient relationship and preserve individual freedom of choice.  

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Docs 4 Patient Care Texas Chapter leaders, Jane Hughes, MD, and Kris Held, MD, independently produced this short video which refutes the claims made by Democrats that US Representative Paul Ryan's plan to save Medicare will hurt America's senior citizens. As we've demonstrated throughout this website and our social media pages, the only legislation that will weaken and destroy Medicare "as we know it" is the president's PPACA (Obamacare). As the doctors explain in this video, Obamacare calls for the cutting of $575 Billion out of the Medicare program and places unaccountable healthcare decision-making in the hands of the new Independent Payment Advisory Board.

D4PC finds this video provocative and informative and we are proud to promote projects that re-introduce the healthcare reform discussion and which provide the public with the viewpoint and perspective of the nation's "practicing" physicians. 

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ALERT, ALERT: D4PC's Scott Barbour will be a guest on the Bill Bennett Radio Show on Tuesday, March 20 between the 6:30 to 7:00 am EST.  The subject he will discuss is ObamaCare's Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) and how it will undermine the doctor-patient relationship. 

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D4PC has joined 25 other organizations to sign on to a letter explaining the dangers of IPAB. As the letter states, IPAB will put 15 unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats in charge of healthcare decisions affecting millions of Americans. The board's decisions will violate the sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship - putting the judgement of non-doctors in charge of making your healthcare decisions. Furthermore, the decisions of the IPAB board not subject to judicial review and cannot be overturned by Congress.  

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The Galen Institute is reporting that the House of Representatives is nearing a vote on repealing the very controversial part of ObamaCare that created the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). From The Galen Institute's website: 

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