01/19/2010
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"is it over time just does have an erosive and corrosive effect on not only the payment rates, obviously, but in terms of access--potentially, access to care."
"Medicare is a critically important program that provides essential health coverage for more than 50 million of our Nation's seniors and disabled citizens."
"if we keep cutting providers' reimbursements under the same system and do not reform the delivery of health care, we eventually are going to affect access and that concerns me greatly."
"It seems to me we are not paying for the right things."