Health-Reform Update: Medicare Worries & Doctors Balk
Published On: July 29th, 2009
Concern over Medicare is one theme of this morning’s health-reform coverage. Here are a few highlights:
Seniors are worried about cuts to their Medicare benefits as a result of calls for reduced Medicare spending, reports the New York Times and WSJ. Members of AARP met with the president last night to discuss their concerns about seniors’ ability to continue to get costly services, like hip replacements. Obama tried to reassure them that the goal of cuts — the House bill proposes to reduce Medicare spending by $246 billion over the next decade — is to reduce wasteful Medicare spending, not benefits, notes the WSJ.
Doctors’ groups don’t like the idea of an independent commission that would set the size of Medicare payments to health-care professionals, reports the WSJ. The idea was proposed by White House budget director Peter Orszag as a way to reign in Medicare costs, but American Medical Association President James Rohack says that “draconian slashes” in Medicare payments isn’t the answer.
Meanwhile, both the House and the Senate are working to negotiate on bills in their respective chambers to keep the overhaul ball rolling. The Senate Finance Committee may get to a panel vote before the August recess, reports the Washington Post.
But how the Finance bill will be reconciled with the one proposed by another Senate panel, the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, could be a challenge, one that will fall on majority leader Harry Reid, notes Politico.com. The HELP bill requires employers to provide insurance and public health-insurance option, while the finance committee bill is likely not to issue a broad mandate on employers and probably will propose a health plan cooperative rather than a government-run option.
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Health-Reform Update: Medicare Worries & Doctors Balk
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