I’m trying really hard to support the “Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act” (MACR). Yesterday, I pointed out that it included a new Medicare payment system called the Medicare Incentive-Based Payment System (MIPS) that will incentivize physicians to avoid the ...
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When the Senate returns from recess this week, it will consider the "Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act" (MACR). The bill has acquired many names, such as "The Doc Fix Fix" and "Budget Buster," but a more appropriate one is ...
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New "Merit-Based Incentive Payment" System is Eerily Similar to Independent Payment Advisory Board Sickest Medicare Patients Likely to Suffer Under IPAB-Like Payment System Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACR) Restructures Medicare's Payments So Doctors Have Incentives to Avoid the ...
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The Daily Caller has run our David Hogberg's new paper, "Medicare Doc Fix Bill Is IPAB-Lite": When the Senate returns from recess this week, it will consider the "Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act" (MACR). The bill has acquired many ...
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Debunking the left-wing narrative that police-related killings of black men proves a “systemic problem in America” Project 21 co-chairman Horace Cooper pointed out on the Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor” that the facts show there is really “an elevated ...
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According to veteran liberal Congressman James Clyburn (D-SC), commonsense conservatives are to blame for the shooting in South Carolina. I'm not exaggerating: Clyburn claims the climate for the shooting was created by people who believe in self-defense, voter ID -- even ...
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Members of the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network are speaking out about the shooting of an apparently unarmed black man during a foot chase after a traffic stop in North Charleston, South Carolina. Caught on video by a ...
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For people who had a rare disease, defined as an ailment that strikes less than 200,000 Americans, there was often little hope, at least when it came to pharmaceuticals.  Drug companies didn’t see much profit in sinking resources into developing ...
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It’s not a good Friday for the Obama Administration.  A new report on jobless numbers, compiled by the federal government, came out today. The official unemployment rate is 5.5 percent.  That’s unchanged from last month, and that’s no cause for ...
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There was a time when actor Danny Glover made national news because, as a black man, he said he couldn't get a cab to stop for him. That was before the Uber ridesharing service that is now challenging the cab ...
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