ensuring quality care for medicare patients Issue 2

as of 2008 doctors who treat medicare patients will face cuts of 5 to 10% in their rembursment from the government. president Bush budgeted that there will be saving of $70 billion on medicare and medicaid over the next 5 years. as medicare is presently set up, doctors get paid based on their quantity of work not quality of work. they assert that doctors are expected to provide "quality care" at all time. they should not be paid extra for providing quality care.

i think that all doctors should have to provide quality care even if thy dont get paid extra because they dont need to be paid extra because it is their job to provide quality care to all of their patients.


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