Republicans refuse appointments to Obamacare rationing board

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House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., sent a letter to President Obama Thursday informing him that they would not be making recommendations for the Independent Payment Advisory Board, as they are allowed to do under the president’s 2010 health care reform law.

“We believe Congress should repeal IPAB, just as we believe we ought to repeal the entire health care law,” the Boehner and McConnell letter reads.

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