House Passed SGR Fix

I am quite amazed that any governmental body has actually passed something instead of just talking about the same things year after year after year. A couple of years ago, I watched live proceedings of one of the House committees. The head of the committee, plus a leading member of the minority party, loudly proclaimed how more than talk has to happen, that legislation needs to be passed, and how absurd it is that the SGR hasn't been fixed. Guess what happened! Nothing.

I haven't read the bill yet, but just an attempt to fix it is good news to me. Do you really think a 21% cut to physician reimbursement when they have increasing expenses is going to help healthcare? It is scheduled for 2010 if something doesn't happen to stop it. We are going to lose good physicians who finally give up if that happens. Cutting reimbursement will make it impossible for some to stay in practice, let alone compete against growing hospital employed networks.