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Just because you live in California, not Nebraska, should you receive more money for a similar service? According to the Feds, yes.
"Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) is trying to strip out the $400-million raise, contending that California is getting a special deal.
"We need a doc fix for the entire country, not a partial fix for one state," Coburn said in a statement. "The American people are tired of special deals that pick winners and losers on the basis of politics rather the country's best interest."
Supporters of the raise, which was originally in the House version of the healthcare overhaul, point to independent studies by the Government Accountability Office and others that show the formula has depressed Medicare payments in parts of many states, but most prominently in California.
The low reimbursement rates are forcing doctors in some urban areas to stop seeing new Medicare patients, said Rep. Sam Farr (D-Carmel), who has been pushing for a change in the Medicare formula for more than a decade. "This is denying access to seniors."
This is what happens when government interferes with the private sector--high costs, higher taxes, fewer services.
Wait till ObamaCare decimates our health care system--starting in September when one million people lose their health care insurance due to government regulations.
Our lives are at stake--Remember in November.
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"Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) is trying to strip out the $400-million raise, contending that California is getting a special deal.
"We need a doc fix for the entire country, not a partial fix for one state," Coburn said in a statement. "The American people are tired of special deals that pick winners and losers on the basis of politics rather the country's best interest."
Supporters of the raise, which was originally in the House version of the healthcare overhaul, point to independent studies by the Government Accountability Office and others that show the formula has depressed Medicare payments in parts of many states, but most prominently in California.
The low reimbursement rates are forcing doctors in some urban areas to stop seeing new Medicare patients, said Rep. Sam Farr (D-Carmel), who has been pushing for a change in the Medicare formula for more than a decade. "This is denying access to seniors."
This is what happens when government interferes with the private sector--high costs, higher taxes, fewer services.
Wait till ObamaCare decimates our health care system--starting in September when one million people lose their health care insurance due to government regulations.
Our lives are at stake--Remember in November.
More...