Countdown Begins for Congress on 'Doc Fix'

[WillowTree]

Doctors who serve Medicare patients are facing a 27.4 percent cut in payments beginning Jan. 1 unless Congress acts to create a "patch" to the 1990s-era calculation for determining the value of medical services.
The perennial "doctor fix" is the latest casualty of the Super Committee's inability to come to a deal on deficit reduction. Without the temporary boost in payments Medicare sets for medical professionals to take care of seniors and the disabled, doctors warn that millions could see their health care choices limited.


Read more: Countdown Begins For Congress On 'Doc Fix' | Fox News








way to go obamie.. good fucking job. first you steal 960 billion dollars from medicare now you axe the doctors.. ya just know the seniors are gonna vote for your sorry ass now don'tya??

 

[Greenbeard]

way to go obamie.. good fucking job. first you steal 960 billion dollars from medicare now you axe the doctors.. ya just know the seniors are gonna vote for your sorry ass now don'tya??

The ill-advised cuts to physicians that the doc fix is required to correct are actually a product of Newt Gingrich (see the Balanced Budget Act of 1997), not Obama.

 

[Jackson]

Doctors who serve Medicare patients are facing a 27.4 percent cut in payments beginning Jan. 1 unless Congress acts to create a "patch" to the 1990s-era calculation for determining the value of medical services.
The perennial "doctor fix" is the latest casualty of the Super Committee's inability to come to a deal on deficit reduction. Without the temporary boost in payments Medicare sets for medical professionals to take care of seniors and the disabled, doctors warn that millions could see their health care choices limited.


Read more: Countdown Begins For Congress On 'Doc Fix' | Fox News

way to go obamie.. good fucking job. first you steal 960 billion dollars from medicare now you axe the doctors.. ya just know the seniors are gonna vote for your sorry ass now don'tya??

And this will result in doctors retiring and probable decisions on career choices to be limited in medicine.

 

[editec]

Austerity begins.

 

[WillowTree]

way to go obamie.. good fucking job. first you steal 960 billion dollars from medicare now you axe the doctors.. ya just know the seniors are gonna vote for your sorry ass now don'tya??

The ill-advised cuts to physicians that the doc fix is required to correct are actually a product of Newt Gingrich (see the Balanced Budget Act of 1997), not Obama.

nice try asswarp.

 

[Dot Com]

way to go obamie.. good fucking job. first you steal 960 billion dollars from medicare now you axe the doctors.. ya just know the seniors are gonna vote for your sorry ass now don'tya??

The ill-advised cuts to physicians that the doc fix is required to correct are actually a product of Newt Gingrich (see the Balanced Budget Act of 1997), not Obama.

Right you are. Better luck next time WT
Ezra Klein - What to do about the doc fix?

In 1997, the Republican Congress created a payment formula meant to govern Medicare called the Sustainable Growth Rate. The formula was supposed to be a little tweak that saved a couple billion dollars. But the formula was wrong, and it quickly proved a wrenching readjustment that would've driven physicians out of the program by sharply slashing their payments. But rather than undo it, Republicans in Congress, and then Democrats when they took over Congress, passed temporary fixes, because no one wanted to come up with the money to fix the thing permanently.

 

[geauxtohell]

Doctors who serve Medicare patients are facing a 27.4 percent cut in payments beginning Jan. 1 unless Congress acts to create a "patch" to the 1990s-era calculation for determining the value of medical services.
The perennial "doctor fix" is the latest casualty of the Super Committee's inability to come to a deal on deficit reduction. Without the temporary boost in payments Medicare sets for medical professionals to take care of seniors and the disabled, doctors warn that millions could see their health care choices limited.


Read more: Countdown Begins For Congress On 'Doc Fix' | Fox News







way to go obamie.. good fucking job. first you steal 960 billion dollars from medicare now you axe the doctors.. ya just know the seniors are gonna vote for your sorry ass now don'tya??

This is a result of the cuts from the budget and it goes a lot deeper then this. Most affected will likely be medical residency training which is funded by medicare.

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Rather then blaming anyone, a pragmatic approach would be to find a solution.

Remember, when they cut medicaid/medicare, they are screwing with the education and training of your future healthcare provider.