Medicare pay cut could hasten health care crisis



Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Congress is under pressure to fix a national doctor shortage that could worsen on July 1, when physicians who treat Medicare patients will get a 10 percent pay cut. Some say the situation is dire. One-third of the nation’s active doctors — or roughly 250,000 of them — are over 55 and likely to retire in the next decade. And as graduating students face rising debt loads, the number of…

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