{"id":22672,"date":"2015-03-30T19:23:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T23:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=22672"},"modified":"2015-03-30T19:23:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T23:23:31","slug":"supreme-court-declines-challenge-to-obamacare%e2%80%99s-ipab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/22672\/supreme-court-declines-challenge-to-obamacare%e2%80%99s-ipab\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Declines Challenge to ObamaCare\u2019s IPAB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama administration got a rare piece of good news today when the U.S. Supreme Court <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/03\/supreme-court-obamacare-case-decline-medical-board-116504.html \" target=\"_blank\">declined to overturn<\/a> a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision upholding part of ObamaCare.<\/p>\n<p>The case, <em>Coons v. Lew<\/em>, is an Arizona-based challenge to the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), the 15-member group of experts empowered to reduce Medicare spending below a certain threshold.<\/p>\n<p>In declining the plaintiffs\u2019 appeal, the Supremes did not in any way indicate that this case is without merit. Rather, it may have been filed too early. Courts are typically loathe to strike down parts of laws that have yet to go into effect. IPAB won\u2019t be making any decisions until 2019 at the earliest.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, the issue is whether IPAB is constitutional. \u201cIts decisions cannot be overridden by Congress without a super-majority and cannot be challenged in court,\u201d explains a report in Politico. If that sounds like near monarchial power for an unelected bunch of experts, well, this is the Obama administration after all.<\/p>\n<p>For now, IPAB is a dormant legal issue. Time will tell if it becomes a political rallying cry in next year\u2019s presidential election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama administration got a rare piece of good news today when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to overturn a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision upholding part of ObamaCare. The case, Coons v. Lew, is an Arizona-based challenge to the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), the 15-member group of experts empowered to reduce Medicare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3887,1138,84,144,3308,1829,2617,35,50,2242],"class_list":["post-22672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-3887","tag-bureaucracy","tag-congress","tag-constitution","tag-health","tag-insurance","tag-ipab","tag-obamacare","tag-rationing","tag-separation-of-powers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22672"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22676,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22672\/revisions\/22676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}