President Barack Obama says he’s ready to sign bipartisan legislation to fix Medicare’s doctor payment problem.
Obama says he’s got his pen “ready to sign a good bipartisan bill.”
Without a fix, doctors face a 21 percent cut in Medicare fees. It’s the consequence of a 1990s budget law that Congress has repeatedly waived.
The House is expected to vote Thursday on a bill with rare support from both top leaders in the House that would permanently fix the problem. It also would extend funding for children’s health insurance and community health centers.
Obama spoke at a White House event marking this week’s five year anniversary of his signing the Affordable Care Act.
(AP)
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The problem with that approach is it encourages medical providers to avoid patients for whom a bad outcome is likely, and to go out of their way to get patients likely to recover, even though it is the ones for whom a bad outcome is more likely that most need the medical care.
This has been tried often by people of all parties and ideologies, and it hasn’t worked.
(#1) Based on your comment you assume quality means “patient recovers”, why do you make that assumption? Certainly nowhere in the “article” is that even remotely implied.
Both stink Mr President, AS DO YOUR POLICIES!