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S. 1776, The Medicare Physician Fairness Act of 2009 (3 comments ↓ | 5 wiki edits)
S. 1776 would amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the update under the Medicare physician fee schedule for years beginning with 2010 and to sunset the application of the sustainable growth rate formula.
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Mark S.
October 20, 2009, 10:09am (report abuse)As a senior and a person that has been greatly influenced by the cost impacts of health care it is obvoious that some sort of control is needed. I see this bill as one of the first steps. I also clearly see the insurance industry trying it's best to scare people into believeing that health care refore is a bad idea, go figure. They are the one's profiting from this ever increasing cost problem. Take them out of the picture and we remove the cost problem.
Douglas
(logged in user) October 25, 2009, 3:06pm (report abuse)The health insurance industry posted a 2.2 percent profit margin last year.
Alan
October 27, 2009, 11:22pm (report abuse)It's my understanding that this bill would have been a permanent "doc fix". For the past few years congress has to pass a "doc fix" measure to prevent a cut in pay to physicians. Now it has grown to about 21% reduction and physicians don't want the cut.
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