{"id":43340,"date":"2009-11-17T09:14:58","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T14:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"ff1168c1-92fe-4dd7-a2c7-33bd32e3ace2"},"modified":"2009-11-17T09:14:58","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T14:14:58","slug":"medicare-doctor-payment-fix-could-slip-jeopardizing-ama-support-for-health-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/43340","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Doctor Payment &#8220;Fix&#8221; Could Slip, Jeopardizing AMA Support For Health Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Medical Association backed the House Democrats&#8217; reform bill earlier this month, at a time when it appeared likely lawmakers would move to permanently end looming cuts to doctors&#8217; Medicare payments that Congress defers from year to year, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1109\/29589.html\">Politico<\/a> reports. While the so-called &#8220;doc fix&#8221; was not in the final health bill, &#8220;[t]he House is expected to pass a bill later this week to permanently plug [the] shortfall &#8230;.\u00a0But prospects for the bill look dim, since the Senate blocked consideration of a similar measure late last month, and House leaders stripped the proposal from their broader health reform package.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The conflicting maneuvers suggest that, rather than a permanent solution, the best the doctors might get is yet another one- or two-year fix, which could threaten their support for health care reform,&#8221; according to Politico.\u00a0In the earlier Senate vote, the Democratic leadership fell 12 votes shy of the 60 needed to pass a bill. Fiscal conservatives have opposed it, saying it would add $247 billion to the deficit over a decade (O&#8217;Connor, 11\/17). <br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/khn\/fulltext\/~4\/qaumHpRC1l0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Medical Association backed the House Democrats&#8217; reform bill earlier this month, at a time when it appeared likely lawmakers would move to permanently end looming cuts to doctors&#8217; Medicare payments that Congress defers from year to year, Politico reports. While the so-called &#8220;doc fix&#8221; was not in the final health bill, &#8220;[t]he House [&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-43340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43340","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=43340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}