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Tribune News Service
Tribune News Service
National
Michael McAuliff

Medicare pay cuts will hurt seniors’ care, doctors argue

Doctors are urging Congress to call off cuts scheduled to take effect on Jan. 1 in the reimbursements they receive from Medicare.

In what has become an almost yearly ritual, physician groups are arguing that patients will have greater difficulty finding doctors who accept Medicare if lawmakers allow the pay cuts to happen.

Whether doctors’ efforts to stave off the cuts will succeed as in past years remains to be seen.

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