Hidden in the debate over expanding the SCHIP is the fact that the impending Medicare fee cuts will also be abated:
The bill’s main Medicare proposals include replacing the impending 2008 and 2009 physician fee cuts (projected to be 10 percent and 5 percent, respectively) with a 0.5 percent update for both years.






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