tci Part B Insider - 2007 Issue 5

Bush Budget Leaves Doctors Out In The Cold, ACP Warns

President Bush-s 2008 budget proposed $70 billion in cuts to Medicare spending. Though he didn't propose any new cuts to physician payments, he also didn't suggest any ways to avoid the roughly 8- to 10-percent pay cut facing your office next year.The president's failure to include funds in the budget to avert this cut will -accelerate the collapse of primary care, create access problems, and manufacture obstacles to fundamental reform of physician payment policies,- said the American College of Physicians. The ACP disagreed with Bush's plans to cut the Children's Health Insurance Program, but did applaud an ...

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