The "death panel" is no more.
Or, more specifically, the Independent Payment Advisory Board, the panel that was set up as part of the Affordable Care Act, no longer exists.
The board of outside health care experts, which was tasked with advising Medicare on how to cut costs, was eliminated as part of the $541 billion budget deal passed by Congress and signed into law by President Trump on Friday.
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