Posted on 03/26/2015 9:58:14 AM PDT by GIdget2004
The House on Thursday overwhelmingly voted to repeal automatic cuts to doctors under Medicare, endorsing a rare bipartisan deal that Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) negotiated with Democrats.
The bill, which passed by a vote of 392-37, puts Congress on the precipice of ending a nearly two-decade-long fight over a formula known as the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR).
Since 2003, lawmakers have put off cuts under the Medicare formula 17 times, perennially punting the solution through short-term “fixes” that, over time, ran up the cost of abolishing the formula to nearly $200 billion dollars.
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They all have to go to the doctor once in a while, I guess.
I’m still batting 1,000 since Nov 10th.
Hopefully Pelosi & Boehner’s doctors are oncologist due to late stage.
You can’t force people to work for less than it costs them to do the job, which was what was happening under this law. My neurologist is threatening to retire, my family doctor of almost 30 years is looking to hang it up, a family I know where both the husband and wife are doctors are adimantly telling their kids NOT to go into medicine.
Those of us of retirement age will probably find doctors as we approach the finish line of life. But the 20-somethings may find doctors to be scarce.
Bipartisan means the public got shellacked.
Bipartisan means they have locked the Cabin door.
They can fund this once King vs Burwell settles.
RINO-Dem Coalition
That’s an imperfect analogy.
Bipartisan means they skipped Flight 9525 and are currently enjoying the Lufthansa Lounge in the Airport.
I would be shocked if Reid ever lets this come to a vote in the Senate. The guy is programmed to do nothing but kill Bills. It is so entrenched, he can’t even tell when he is winning anymore.
I wish.More like they have put the (air)ship of state into a slow decline into a fiscal mountain. They won’t survive the crash either.
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