Remember the “doctor fix,” the multi-billion bribe for the American Medical Association that got voted down in the Senate last year? Well, it’s baaaaaaaack. The Dems have stashed it in the “jobs” bill:
On page 107, the program delays a scheduled reduction in doctors’ payments under Medicare.
As I wrote last October in the American Spectator, this is the AMA’s price for supporting Obamacare. So, it was more or less inevitable that the docs would wolf down a big chunk of taxpayer cash.
This also demonstrates that all the BS we’ve been hearing from the President and his congressional accomplices about “reform” cutting the federal budget deficit can be safely ignored:
In its analysis of the Senate health care bill, the CBO assumed that ‘the 21 percent reduction in (physician) payment rates that is scheduled to occur in 2010 under current law would take effect.’
No one with any sense ever believed this cut would happen. So, the only real question was what sort of skulduggery would the Democrats use to make sure the AMA got its bribe. Now we know.
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