Are Democrats starting to pander to doctors?

July 17, 2008

Their traditionally physician-unfriendly mouthpiece, the NY Times, is wooing physicians with rhetoric that is sure to get their attention:

The next Congress should build on this modest success and tackle more deep-seated reforms. It must find a permanent solution to the outdated formulas for reimbursing doctors; the current ones yield cuts so draconian that Congress must routinely scramble to find stopgap patches.



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