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AMA: PHYSICIANS OUTRAGED AT TODAY'S STEEP MEDICARE CUT
U.S. Senate Allows Cut To Begin, Seniors' Access To Health Care Now At Risk
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate's failure to act before today's 21 percent Medicare physician payment cut has put seniors at grave risk of reduced access to health care and choice of physician.
"The Senate had over a year to repeal the flawed formula that causes the annual payment cut and instead they abandoned America's seniors, making them collateral damage to their procedural games," said AMA President J. James Rohack, M.D. "Physicians are outraged because the cut, combined with the continued instability in the system, will force them to make difficult practice changes including limiting the number of Medicare patients they can treat."
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