their political affiliations. He now says that was a mistake, in part because “I think it closed some ears.”

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When he referred to a death panel, Akins said he was actually talking about something in the law called the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). The IPAB, to be made up of 15 experts appointed by the president and subject to Senate confirmation, is primarily charged with helping to reduce the rate of growth in Medicare spending.

But the IPAB would be formed only by a triggering condition — when the projected five-year Medicare per capita growth rate exceeds the targeted Medicare per capita growth rate. Even though the law was signed in 2010, President Barack Obama never appointed any board members because that condition was not met.

Akins said he wasEnglish corporations, which also owns The Bowater Corporation of North America, Limited, a Canadian corporation, which, in turn, owns Bowater's Newfoundland Pulp and Paper Mills, Limited, a Canadian corporation.  Bowater's Newfoundland operates pulp and paper mills in the Province of Newfoundland, where it has timber lands and licenses to timber rights and lands owned by others.  Bowater's Newfoundland sells its paper to a subsidiary, Newfoundland Export and Shipping Company, Limited, which in turn sells some of it to Bowater Paper Company, a New York corporation owned by Bowater Corporation of North America, which sells to consumers in the United States.  Paper thus sold is transported by seven British registered vessels, including the Gladys Bowater, owned by plaintiff and chartered by it to Bowater's Newfoundland.


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