WASHINGTON – Congressman Tim Huelskamp (KS-01) issued the following statement after the House voted to pass H.R. 1190, the Protecting Seniors’ Access to Medicare Act. The bipartisan bill cosponsored by Huelskamp would repeal the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). IPAB is a creation of the President Obama’s health care law and would be comprised of 15 unelected and unaccountable Washington bureaucrats with draconian authority to ration Medicare on the backs of our seniors.

“Today’s vote to eliminate IPAB is another successful effort to put patients first. We’ve sought to protect our seniors and undo the harm ObamaCare will and has done to patients. The hands of 15 unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats, appointed by the President is neither what America wants nor needs.

“Our seniors need quality, innovative and responsive health care – not a rationing board that would devastate Medicare”