As we ease into Easter weekend, the Administration is losing confidence that the Senate will uncritically swallow the Boehner-Pelosi-Obama so-called Medicare “doc fix”.
According to The Hill, the Administration is pleading with the Senate to pass the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) immediately when the Senate reconvenes on April 13. If not, the Administration will have to start processing doctors’ claims at a significantly lower rate of payment on April 15.
This pressure mirrors that of Obamacare supporters such as AARP and the American Hospital Association, which are lobbying hard towards the same goal: Recruiting Republican legislators onto Obamacare’s B-Team by getting them to vote for this perpetual extension of the current theory governing Medicare payments, which Obamacare made worse by centralizing decisions about “quality” and “value” in the federal government.
Read the entire column at NCPA's Health Policy Blog.
Research and commentary from a former senior executive in the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
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