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Wall Street Journal Letters To The Editor Address Recent Opinion Piece On Medicare Bill

Main Category: Medicare / Medicaid / SCHIP
Article Date: 04 Jul 2008 - 9:00 PDT

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The Wall Street Journal on Thursday published two letters to the editor in response to an opinion piece about a bill (HR 6331) approved last month by the House that would delay a scheduled 10.6% reduction in Medicare physician reimbursements and reduce funds for Medicare Advantage. The opinion piece, written by Scott Gottlieb, a former CMS official and an American Enterprise Institute fellow, appeared on June 24. Summaries of the letters appear below.
Reprinted with kind permission from http://www.kaisernetwork.org. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives, or sign up for email delivery at http://www.kaisernetwork.org/dailyreports/healthpolicy. The Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report is published for kaisernetwork.org, a free service of The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

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