Medicare payment reductions worry doctors, patients

clipped from www.baynews9.com ST. PETERSBURG (Bay News 9) -- March begins with a financial blow for doctors, who are facing a major reduction in Medicare payments. The 21-percent reduction is the result of what some say is an outdated reimbursement formula from the 1990s. Over the years, Congress managed to waive the deficit reduction measure, but legislators failed to repeal it last week. "A 21-percent cut is large, and a little shocking," he said. "You have to figure out your practice style or your lifestyle, if you're gonna make a lot less money." The AMA said the state of Florida's 3 million Medicare beneficiaries already face a shortage of doctors. They estimate that there are only 15 practicing physicians for every 1,000 Medicare patients. The Obama administration is asking that no Medicare payments be reimbursed for the first 10 business days of March, in hopes that the problem will be solved with the end of the Senate stalemate.

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If more people today would realize why socialized medicine is a very bad idea as many have already been through this before. This speech will help many more understand what it is.

clipped from www.youtube.com From the 1961 Operation Coffee Cup Campaign against Socialized Medicine as proposed by the Democrats, then a private citizen Ronald Reagan Speaks out against socialized medicine. There is no video because this was an LP sent out by the American Medical Association Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine clipped from www.conservative.org Since our last meeting we have been through a disastrous election. It is easy for us to be discouraged, as pundits hail that election as a repudiation of our philosophy and even as a mandate of some kind or other. But the significance of the election was not registered by those who voted, but by those who stayed home. If there was anything like a mandate it will be found among almost two-thirds of the citizens who refused to participate. We will maintain whatever level of strength is necessary to preserve our free way of life.

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