Some 110 physician groups signed a recent letter to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) urging Congress to use leftover military contingency funds for a "cleaning of the books" that would make possible the repeal of the sustainable growth-rate Medicare-payment formula.
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I suppose only in Washington could a panel meet to discuss ways to increase payment for primary-care services, but be forbidden to attach a dollar amount to those figures.
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Kearney, Neb., a town of about 31,000 people, is about a five-hour drive east from Denver and a two-hour drive west from Lincoln, and now in the middle of a national healthcare controversy.
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"Ban on antibiotics in animal feed imminent" reads the headline of a news brief I wrote back in April 1985.
I suppose from a geological perspective, a period of 25 years reflects some degree of imminence, but in political terms, it's several lifetimes.
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The Internet was full of commentary after the recent death of Siobhan Reynolds, but none of the comments I saw came from Dr. William Hurwitz, the physician whose legal troubles inspired Reynolds to become an advocate for pain patients and the doctors who treated them.
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