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Cloture Vote on Medicare Doc Fix Set for Monday

By | 10.15.09 | 7:37 pm

Without any ceremony, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) took to the floor this afternoon and filed a motion to hold a cloture vote Monday on a 10-year, $245 billion proposal to update payments to physicians participating in Medicare.

The bill, introduced just two days ago by Sen. Debbie Stabenow More…

Pelosi: Medicare Doc Fix Must Be Paid For

By | 10.15.09 | 3:08 pm

Yesterday, Senate Democratic leaders began moving on a proposal to scrap the current formula dictating doctors’ Medicare rates and replacing it with a system more accurately reflecting the costs to treat those patients. Notably, party leaders appear poised to pass the bill separately from broader health reform legislation More…

Taking on Medicare’s Flawed Formula to Pay Doctors

By | 10.15.09 | 10:59 am

Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee have been patting themselves on the back for passing out a health reform proposal that both saves money over the next decade and costs hundreds of billions of dollars less than similar legislation moving through the House. What often goes unmentioned is More…