{"id":30386,"date":"2009-10-21T10:24:20","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T14:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"990c2daa-b2ba-4402-bd34-20b560a81739"},"modified":"2009-10-21T10:24:20","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T14:24:20","slug":"advocates-urge-action-now-on-medicare-doctor-payment-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/30386","title":{"rendered":"Advocates Urge Action Now On Medicare Doctor Payment Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaiserhealthnews.org\/Stories\/2009\/October\/20\/stabenow-and-doc-fix.aspx\" >Kaiser Health News<\/a> staff writer Chris Weaver reports on developments surrounding efforts in the Senate regarding legislation on\u00a0Medicare payments to physicians. &#8220;Legislation to &#8216;fix&#8217; Medicare&#8217;s physician payment formula has stalled in the Senate, just days after Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., announced his intent to fast-track the measure. &#8230;\u00a0The current proposal which was introduced last week by Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., would do away with the formula and the scheduled pay cuts. Because these changes come with an estimated cost of $250 billion to the Medicare program and no off-sets, the bill has riled up budget hawks &#8212; both Republicans and Democrats &#8212; who say they will oppose the legislation until lawmakers find a way to pay for it&#8221; (10\/20). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaiserhealthnews.org\/Stories\/2009\/October\/20\/stabenow-and-doc-fix.aspx\" >Read the entire\u00a0story<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/khn\/fulltext\/~4\/LYx2jQpDkG0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaiser Health News staff writer Chris Weaver reports on developments surrounding efforts in the Senate regarding legislation on\u00a0Medicare payments to physicians. &#8220;Legislation to &#8216;fix&#8217; Medicare&#8217;s physician payment formula has stalled in the Senate, just days after Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., announced his intent to fast-track the measure. &#8230;\u00a0The current proposal which was introduced last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}