Well, if doctors and hospitals are under-reimbursed further--they're at their limit today. If the cuts go even further--and of course $500 billion is draconian by any stretch of the imagination; that's as much as the entire annual budget for Medicare. If you cut it that much, then doctors will have to opt out of Medicare altogether, and the senior citizens won't have doctors to go to.
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These are well-intended settlements and I commend those of you who have worked so hard on getting these bills to this important juncture.
In all that time, how many people at the Veterans Administration hospital system have actually been fired?
There is no question about it, EDA does fantastic work, and I will be 110 percent committed to its success, efficacy, and efficiency while I am leading it and while it is funded.
what the Federal Government gives, it can certainly take away; and Federal agencies are once again contradicting each other, a recurring theme under this and prior administrations.
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