The cost of health care has only increased since the Affordable Care Act - commonly known as Obamacare - went into effect. Obamacare was a massive intrusion of government into America's medical sector. What many Americans do not realize is that not all of Obamacare's requirements have fully kicked in yet. Consider, for example, the not yet implemented Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB).
"Nominally, the IPAB was created to control Medicare spending – supposedly by cutting red tape and so on. In practice, and notwithstanding assurance to the contrary, it would inevitably become a de facto price control/care-rationing body, cutting costs by unilaterally reducing "authorized" payments to doctors and other providers and by the simple expedient of declaring various treatments “not cost-effective,” thereby denying treatment outright.
To paraphrase Joe Stalin: No care, no problem.
It is Orwellian that the same Democrats who endlessly accuse Republicans of seeking to "deny care" to people have done exactly that by legislative and bureaucratic fiat.
- By statute, the IPAB is required to cut costs in line with arbitrary “targets” – regardless of the effect on care. There is no provision for judicial or administrative review. Even the President is powerless to remove IPAB bureaucrats, once they are appointed. The IPAB is effectively both omnipotent and unaccountable."
https://fee.org/articles/15-faceless-bureaucrats-will-decide-what-health-care-youre-allowed-to-have/