Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Can this be the year Medicare changes its payment formula?
Possibly, but I'm not holding my breath. MedPAC will release suggestions this week:Congress is facing a bleak choice this year: Cut payments to doctors and reduce Medicare beneficiaries' access to care, or let physician payments grow and raise beneficiaries' premiums and co-payments.
Lawmakers are looking for a third way out: revising Medicare's system of payment to doctors.
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Dear Doctor,
Rest assured that Congress will do as little as possible to address the root causes of rising medical costs and as much as possible to line the pockets of their rich donors.
http://thwphotos.blogspot.com/2007/02/letter-from-uninsured-person.html
Rest assured that Congress will do as little as possible to address the root causes of rising medical costs and as much as possible to line the pockets of their rich donors.
http://thwphotos.blogspot.com/2007/02/letter-from-uninsured-person.html
....."as much as possible to line the pockets of their rich donors."
What rich donors? Doctors? Anyone who knows anything about political contributions knows that doctors are among the LEAST willing to part with political contributions, no matter how much those contributions might benefit them...Less than 10% of physicians support the political action committees which were created to support them.
Now if you're looking for political contributions, look at your local trial lawyers....THEY contribute five to ten times as much as doctors, and they see political contributions as one of the costs of doing business....
What rich donors? Doctors? Anyone who knows anything about political contributions knows that doctors are among the LEAST willing to part with political contributions, no matter how much those contributions might benefit them...Less than 10% of physicians support the political action committees which were created to support them.
Now if you're looking for political contributions, look at your local trial lawyers....THEY contribute five to ten times as much as doctors, and they see political contributions as one of the costs of doing business....
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: 5:28 PM
: 5:28 PM
My quote was a reference to so called, "Healthcare" providers who do make huge contributions to political candidates. Richard Scrushy, the CEO of HealthSouth, is a prime example. Mr. Scrushy sits in a jail cell as I right this, convicted of bribing Alabama Governor Don Siegelman.
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