I would just caution this panel and this committee and this Congress that the SGR system was this Congress' solution to how to pay physicians a few short years ago, and it has run amok, clearly.
Tom Price: “I would just caution this panel and this committee and this Congress that the SGR system was this Congress' solution to…”
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Price warns about the failures of the SGR payment system for physicians.
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