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Dr. cecil wilson with the american medical association says that's like paying the interest on a credit card debt, principle owed to those doctors keeps climbing. >> four years ago, the cuts were 3 to 4%, they could have fixed this with $48 billion. now 21%, 210 billion dollars to fix it. each year they postpone it makes it even more difficult. >> the problem is that price tag, $210 billion. if that had been part of the health reform bill, it would have pushed the total tab to a trillion, pushed up the deficit and almost certainly hurt the chances for passage. democrats didn't want any of that...

Waves off those cuts, that's what happened in the last several years. reimbursements are not getting slashed. in this sgr, the potential based on how the economy is doing for doctors to get cut. >> sgr stands for? >> sustainable growth rate. >> yes. >> it is in the bill, if it wasn't in the bill, the thought is it would cost $210 billion over ten years to make up for the reimbursements to doctors that they won't get right now. >> it's key because you have to have doctors who are taking care of old folks and we have to have doctors who are taking care of the poor. and it has to make sense to th...

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