Re: Reid hopes recess heat will change Medicare votes
On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:26:45 -0400, Jim Higgins wrote:
Reid hopes recess heat will change Medicare votes
http://tinyurl.com/4osseq
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Some lawmakers have warned that doctors will immediately start dropping
Medicare patients next week, rather than see a 10.6 percent cut in the
fees they receive. But it seems clear that Reid intends to find a way to
push the bill through and achieve at least the 60 vote threshold needed
to clear the Senate.
Did the doctors happen to say how much they need to live on? Did the
clinics plan to drop the advantage plans? What is the range of the
percentage of Medicare to private insurance patients. Perhaps those that
plan to drop Medicare can't meet their liability insurance premiums. Maybe
the should make better use of nurse practitioners, or is it only the
clinics that do that. Perhaps they can't get work with the VA. They seem
more like spoiled children than adults that want to work together to solve
a problem.
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Glenn
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