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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20120308:18:50:00

service? that s really the question. by my opinion, it s that people can get to the doctors too easily. we have to put road blocks in front of overuse of the medical system. and you know what? we re getting rid of those things. co-pays, deductibles, those are going by the wayside. i need those. i need payments out of pocket for patients megyn: so it makes them less likely to abuse the medical system, keep going to the doctor for everything. so this house is now approving, this committee says, all right, let s get rid of the board, but does this have to go through the regular legislative channels and get president obama to sign off yes, it does megyn: well, that s not going to happen. it had to get through the senate, forget president obama. but they re holding these hearings. this is all about the smear and fear campaign against health care reform and against president obama. that is what this is plain and simple. because if republicans are really so concerned about medicare,

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doctor, what was this board going to do? well, the purpose of this board, megyn, is actually to review medicare services and decide if they re essential and make recommendations about reimbursements. and theoretically, this board could end up cutting doctors fees for services they don t think are essential. the problem with that not only in terms of medicare by the way, the democrats have been saying, medicare, you get to keep your benefits, but if your services are cut, are you keeping your benefits? that s debatable. megyn: right. the health care law said this board was not going to be allowed to restrict benefits, so if they wanted to find medicare savings, they were going to have to cut doctors reimbursements? right or recommend that the reimbursement for these services get cut. as a practicing internist, i don t always believe one thing is better than another. it depends on the patient. one patient needs an mri, another only needs a chest x-ray. it totally depends. and if

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ways to save money. it cannot raise taxes by law, and it cannot, absolutely cannot ration care which is where you were kind of going with your argument, dr. siegel. and with all due respect here, i thought we all wanted to find ways to bring down costs of medicare, so i find it ironic that to have this board made of health care providers and consumers in place, i don t see how that s a bad thing, and it s insulated from those very things bribery that s the whole purpose of taking it out of congress. megyn: by law, it can t ration care. this is a rhetorical word. by my definition, you re rationing care if you can t order a test. because it s not popular by some board, that s ration ld care. and the more they put road blocks in front of the services i want to offer my patients, the more it s rationing care. meg but we have to cut medicare cost cans, that s how it s funded in part. they have to cut some megyn, i ve said from the beginning, let s cut nonessential services. and wh

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the government gets involved in making recommendations and this 15-member board can be appointed by pocket appointments, it can be responding to lobbyists, it can be paid under the table, all kinds of ways this board can be influenced that could influence what services medicare has to offer, and then the private insurers always follow suit. once medicare makes recommendations, then the private insurers say, well, we re not going to cover that either. so we re going to end up with less and less choices of what we can do for our patients. megyn: when you listen to that, you think, okay, go ahead and get rid of the board, but there is another side. yes. there is another side. i was about to jump out of my chair. this board, first of all, is going to be made up of health care providers and consumers. by law, it has to have that. it also has to be approved by the senate. the majority of the board members have to be approved by the senate. megyn: unless the senate s in recess and the

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