More on the annual Medicare reimbursement circus:
Second, and even more troubling, is the last-minute, haphazard, blunt-instrument, let’s-hurry-home-for-the-holidays, unthoughtful decision process. Instead of actually doing something about the underlying problems with Medicare, and the US health care system, Congress is just slapping a little more duct tape on the “problem”.









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