Conservative group forecasts Medicare doctor access problem

Writing for Kaiser Health News, Marilyn Werber Serafini reports in a KHN short take: "Getting a doctor's appointment may become increasingly difficult for seniors and the disabled over the next decade unless Congress changes the new health law, according to a report that the conservative National Center for Policy Analysis plans to release today. Due to scheduled 'draconian' changes in payments to doctors and hospitals serving Medicare beneficiaries, the NCPA says, seniors may soon face the same access issues that sometimes send poor Medicaid recipients to community health centers and safety net hospitals" (Werber Serafini, 9/8). Read the story.

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