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Welcome to the Patients’ Action Network, sponsored by the American Medical Association (AMA). This website is an excellent resource for finding out all the critical health care issues facing Americans, including medical liability reform, the Medicare crisis, and more.
The Patients’ Action Network fights for patients’ rights by advocating for meaningful health care reforms, lower health insurance costs, and more access to affordable, quality health care. We make sure your voices are heard in Washington, D.C. and in the state capitals.
Medicare cuts are once again looming on the health care horizon. The cuts to physician payments are important to you and your family.
Right now, Medicare doesn’t even reimburse your doctor at a level equal to the cost of treating patients. And, believe it or not, recent reports predict that the government will cut the rates further—by 10 percent!—in 2008, and by a whopping 40 percent by 2015
In fact, because of these potential cuts in the Medicare payments, an AMA survey shows that 60 percent of doctors will stop accepting or decrease the number of new Medicare patients they accept if these cuts continue. With millions of Baby Boomers about to retire and swell Medicare's ranks, these cuts make no sense.
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