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Politico | Obamacare deadline looms for holdout states
Friday is the day when states are due to declare whether they’ll partner with the White House to build Affordable Care Act health insurance exchanges. After that, the sprint to the finish begins.
National Journal | President Takes Credit Too Soon for Spending Slowdown
In his State of the Union address this week, President Obama was quick to take credit for a perplexing, but welcome, trend: the recent slowdown in health care spending. “Already, the Affordable Care Act is helping to slow the growth of health care costs,” Obama said.
Blogs
Heritage Foundation | How to Fix the Medicare Physician Payment Problem
The congressional formula that determines the annual Medicare payment update for physicians, the sustainable growth rate (SGR), was supposed to cut Medicare doctors’ pay each year starting in 2002. But that congressional formula is so flawed and unworkable that every year since 2003, Congress has stepped in to stop it from going into effect. In 2013, without another congressional “doc fix,” the physicians would have had a pay cut of 26.5 percent.
