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September 17, 2007
Burying the Lede
News reports today suggest that the House leadership essentially will give up on its own efforts to expand SCHIP to the middle class, endorsing the Senate version of the legislation instead. One little item seems not to have been noticed by our crack media watchdogs: The House version reversed some serious planned cuts in Medicare reimbursements to doctors and hospitals, while the Senate version does not. And so, unless more legislation is passed later this year, the planned cuts will take place at the beginning of 2008.
And so the inevitable continues: Medical socialism, driven not by patients but instead by interest groups, will continue to put the squeeze on the providers. And as day follows night, providers will be led to shun Medicare patients---just as the case has been for Medicaid---proving yet again that government health insurance coverage is the opposite of health care.
Posted by Benjamin Zycher at September 17, 2007 07:35 PM
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