This week Congress is considering the Medicare Access and Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (H.R. 2). Although correct in its ultimate goal, the bill fails significantly as a lasting solution to the problem of how physicians are paid under Medicare. It will make seniors, physicians and taxpayers worse off. As a result, Docs 4 Patient Care–Texas cannot support the legislation.
This week Congress is considering the Medicare Access and Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (H.R. 2). Although correct in its ultimate goal, the bill fails significantly as a lasting solution to the problem of how physicians are paid under Medicare. It will make seniors, physicians and taxpayers worse off. As a result, Docs 4 Patient Care–Texas cannot support the legislation.
H.R. 2’s “solution” to the problem is to repeal the Sustainable Growth Rate by adding $500 billion to our nation’s already unsustainable national debt—a debt that is already unprecedented in the history of this nation.
If we are going to care for our seniors by ensuring that physicians are paid adequately for their services, our first consideration must be to ensure that this is not done by placing a huge financial burden on the grandchildren of these patients. Seniors in America would not wish this, if given the facts.
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