Re: Legislators scramble to prevent Medicare cuts

From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Fri Mar 21 07:41:59 2008


Greetings, Professor Falken! LOL

Cheers

Art

At Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Meenan, Anna wrote: >
>The line is "The only winning move is not to play."
>
>Anna Meenan, MD
>
>>"The only way to win is not to play."
>>Joshua aka WOPR
>>"War Games"
>>
>>Art
>>
>>At Thu, 20 Mar 2008, GIN11153@aol.com wrote:
>>>
>>>Here we go again. With the July 1 cut to Medicare payments on the horizon,
>>>several Senators are introducing legislation to spare physicians the 10% fee
>>>reduction. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) is pushing the Save
>>>Medicare Act of
>>>2008 (_S.2785_ (http://www.thomas.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:s.02785:) ),
>>>which would postpone the cuts through 2009. On the other side of the aisle,
>>>Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) is sponsoring the Ensuring the Future Physician
>>>Workforce Act of 2008 (_S.2729_
>>>(http://www.thomas.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:s.02729:) ), which
>>>includes more ambitious reforms, such as getting rid of the
>>>Medicare spending cap. Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) says he's also working on a
>>>solution
>>>
>>>_http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/content/207964/topic/WS_HLM2_PHY/Senator-Re
>>>form-starts-by-changing-the-way-we-pay-physicians.html_
>>>(http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/content/207964/topic/WS_HLM2_PHY/Senator-Reform-starts-by-changin
>>>g-the-way-we-pay-physicians.html)
>>
>>--
>>art fougner, md
>>"May The Wings of Liberty Never Lose a Feather." - Jack Burton

--
art fougner, md
"May The Wings of Liberty Never Lose a Feather." - Jack Burton




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