Read this on the Web at http://patriotpost.us/edition/2011/06/20/brief/ Brief · June 20, 2011 The Foundation "I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious." --Thomas Jefferson Government "The point of [the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act] is cost containment. This supposedly depends on the Independent Payment Advisory Board. The IPAB, which is a perfect expression of the progressive mind, is to be composed of 15 presidential appointees empowered to reduce Medicare spending -- which is 13 percent of federal spending -- to certain stipulated targets. IPAB is to do this by making 'proposals' or 'recommendations' to limit costs by ...