Shelley Berkley: “my community has the fastest growing senior population in the United States. I also have numbers of doctors that are…”

“my community has the fastest growing senior population in the United States. I also have numbers of doctors that are telling me they can no longer afford to care for their Medicare patients because of the Medicare reimbursement being so bad. We know that we have to fix this Medicare reimbursement for our doctors so they will continue to be able to afford to treat our senior citizens. In the Senate reconciliation that they are introducing, they have a $10 billion fix so we could help the doctors, so they can continue to take care of our senior citizens. In the House version, they are saying they are not going to include the $10 billion, and the doctors are going to have to take care of themselves. But the misery about this and the hypocrisy is the Republican leadership is telling the doctors, Don't worry about it. We're not going to put it in the budget reconciliation so that you can continue taking care of senior patients. We're going to put it in Labor-HHS. Well, we have already passed Labor-HHS, and there is no $10 billion for the doctors. So that means that we are perpetrating a fraud on the doctors, the patients, and the seniors in this country, and we need not to do that. ____________________”