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DJP Update 2-26-2010 Gov Price-Fixing: the
end result
Quick update as boarding plane at plane change in
Phoenix.
See AMA press release below.
The 21% fee cut for physicians for Medicare and
Tricare takes place March 1.
Yet Congress departs!
Why would anyone want government more involved in
the health system?
With the price-fixing and FORBIDDING of private
contracting without penalty, it is the patients who
will suffer!
Does Congess really care?
Every senior in America should loudly protest. And
we all know the families of our brave military do not
need any more stress with the Tricare coverage.
Shame on Congress. Why was this crisis not discussed
at the Summit?
So much for Organized Medicine's negotiating
approach over this past year and "seat at the
table".
Time for a new game plan. Time for return to
Liberty!
Stay well. Have to board plane.
Donald
Begin forwarded message:
From: HOD Advocacy Update
<hod.advocacy.update@enews.ama-assn.org>
Date: February 26, 2010 11:27:53 AM MST
To: djp@intrepidresources.com
Subject: FW: AMA News: Senate Inaction on Medicare
Hurts Seniors, Military and Boomers; Drastic 21% cut on
March 1
Reply-To: terri.marchiori@ama-assn.org
The AMA press release on the Senate in action...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 26, 2010
SENATE INACTION ON MEDICARE HURTS SENIORS, MILITARY
AND BOOMERS
Drastic 21 percent Medicare physician payment cut
will take place on Monday, March 1
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A Medicare meltdown now
seems certain, as the U.S. Senate has left early for
the weekend, abandoning seniors, military families and
baby boomers. The Senate failed to repeal the Medicare
physician payment formula that will cause a drastic 21
percent payment cut to physicians who care for Medicare
and TRICARE patients. On Monday, the 21 percent cut
goes into effect, forcing many physicians to limit the
number of Medicare and TRICARE patients they see in
order to keep their practice doors open.
“Our message to the U.S. Senate is stop
playing games with Medicare patients and the physicians
who care for them,” said AMA President J. James
Rohack, M.D. “It is shocking that the Senate
would abandon our most vulnerable patients, making them
the collateral damage of their procedural
games.”
Already, about one in four Medicare patients seeking
a primary care physician is having trouble finding one,
according to MedPAC, Congress’ advisory body on
Medicare. Physicians have told AMA that steep Medicare
cuts will force them to limit the number of Medicare
patients they treat. A new 2010 survey of neurosurgeons
found that about 60 percent are already reducing the
number of Medicare patients in their practices, and
cuts will force nearly 40 percent to decrease the
number of new Medicare patients they see. More than 18
percent of neurosurgeons will no longer take new
Medicare patients.
“The Senate had more than a year to repeal the
formula and ensure the security and stability of
Medicare and TRICARE, but that opportunity has been
squandered,” Dr. Rohack said. “This drastic
cut will hurt our senior, disabled and military
patients, as well as baby boomers who start entering
the Medicare program next year.”
“Last November, the U.S. House passed
legislation (H.R. 3961) that would repeal the broken
formula and better update payments to reflect the
increasing cost of care,” Dr. Rohack said.
“AARP and the Military Officers Association of
America (MOAA) have joined with the AMA in calling on
the Senate to act, but the Senate has turned its back
on America’s seniors, military families and baby
boomers.”
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