Medicare physician payments have been the topic of discussion between Democrats and Republicans recently. The health care plans of the Obama administration as well as the whole Democratic Party have undergone a number of changes in the year since Obama was elected president, and now there are further "cosmetic changes" being made by the Democrats.
The Democrats realize that it is essential for them to minimize the opposition to the health care reforms in order to push through the bulk of the health care plans that they have been working on. One of the areas that they are addressing is the planned pay cuts to physicians.
The Medicare program that cares for the less established sick relies heavily on the doctors who join the Medicare program by taking on a patient load through Medicare. Physicians and patients alike, and especially health insurance executives like those at Cinergy Health, know that cutting physicians' fees on Medicare poses a danger to the entire Medicare system.
Cinergy Health in New York says that talk of pay cuts for Medicare physicians "has been terrorizing doctors for a number of years." Pay cuts will lead to physicians cutting their Medicare patient load.
This is one of the reasons that Congress has routinely suspended Medicare physician pay cuts since 2003.
