Claim: An independent payment advisory board created by in the health care reform law is "like a Medicare IRS with the power to cut Medicare in order to pay for new government programs."
Fact-check: 60 Plus Association, with spokesman Pat Boone, says the IPAB is like "a Medicare IRS"
Verdict: pants-fire
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Sabrina Eaton
Date published: 2011-11-25T00:00:00