Fact Check on IPAB: Where Are the Appointees?
The President is claiming that IPAB is an innocuous board of “experts” designed to help improve health care. Well, if that’s the case, why hasn’t he appointed anyone to the board? As we pointed out on Monday, the President was supposed to nominate people to the IPAB by September 30 – but has instead ignored the law, and hasn’t appointed anyone, ostensibly because he’s afraid of nominating his controversial appointees before the election. That doesn’t sound like an innocuous board to me…