News.gnom.es: With much of Washington engulfed in debate over the 2010 Affordable Care Act — at the U.S. Supreme Court, in Congress and on presidential campaigns — the law’s provision to empanel an Independent Payment Advisory Board by 2015 to help reduce Medicare costs also is drawing out critics and defenders.…

Kaiserhealthnews: MAR 19, 2012. Some Senate Demcrats are considering voting with Republicans to repeal the health law’s Independent Payment Advisory Board, while several GOP lawmakers are voicing concerns about the broader repeal strategy. Also, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., has introduced legislation to change the law’s medical-loss ratio. The Hill: Vulnerable Senate Dems…

Washington Post: By Editorial Board, Published: March 18, 2012. ONE OF THE MOST promising cost-control measures in the new health-care law is an entity called the Independent Payment Advisory Board, or IPAB. To be launched in 2015, IPAB will have the authority, if growth in health-care costs exceeds a certain target, to recommend changes…