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Avik Roy: Unfixed, House Passes Medicare 'Doc Fix' That Will Increase Spending & Deficits For At Least 20 Years


Today, with bipartisan support, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a significant Medicare reform bill, by a vote of 392 to 37. The bill would repeal Medicare's "Sustainable Growth Rate," or SGR, and spend hundreds of billions of dollars increasing payments to doctors under Medicare, while modestly increasing Medicare premiums

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Posted: March 26, 2015 Thursday 01:35 PM