The Democrats are disgustingly sneaky in their politics… In order to make the health care bill more acceptable to doctors and to appear more deficit neutral in CBO scoring, the Democrats have a plan to put back the “doc fix” later — after passage of the overall reform bill. Politico has obtained a memo exclusively and reasoned why the American Medical Association supports the reform:
“As most health staff knows, leadership and the White House are working with the AMA to rally physicians for a full SGR repeal later this spring. However, both health and communications staff should understand we do not want that policy discussion discussed at this time, lest (it) complicate the last critical push to pass health reform,” according to the memo.The memo helps explains why the American Medical Association has supported reform even though their top legislative priority, the doc fix, was left out. The group is working behind the scenes with Democratic leadership and the White House to fix the cuts later this year.
Clearly these Democrats will stop at nothing to institute their perverted version of health care reform.
