The CMS wants to cut Medicaid payments to graduate medical education funding. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot:
How does the government expect us to supply our nation with good physicians by cutting back on the funding to train those physicians? The National Center for Policy Analysis stated that as of 2004, the federal government spends $176 billion each year just for care of Medicaid patients. States throw in an extra $112 billion per year. That’s almost half a trillion dollars we spend in this country each year just to care for Medicaid patients! Expenses need to be cut, but where is all the money going?
