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Publicly commit that medicare reductions would not be triggered, given the amount of fear, anxiety, and misinformation that is out there. I wrote to the Senate Majority leader urging that we immediately remove the threat of an automatic cut in medicares funding. In response, i am pleased to say both the majority leader and the speaker of the house released a joint statement that pledged this will not happen. And that is the issue before us tonight. Medicare provides essential Health Care Benefits to our nations seniors. We must remove immediately the threat that an automatic reduction in the p...

Complex health care legislation is often fraught with unintendedconsequences.  This is evidently true with the large andcomplex bills enacted by the House and Senate to establish apatients' bill of rights. They are highly prescriptive, withregulatory provisions that not only govern the numerous operationsof managed care plans, but also encompass fee-for-service plans.

Assessing the Patients' Bill of RightsPanel discussion with Robert E. Moffit, Ph.D., John S. Hoff, andRobert Charrow.

Both the House and the Senate passed bills that would make majorchanges in the financing and delivery of health insurance,introduce new avenues of litigation in the health care system, andestablish a massive level of federal regulation over the operationsof private health care plans.

Medicare patients do not reliably receive the best medical care in America.