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Congress Weighs Medicare Cuts Again

Richard Quinn  |  November 6, 2011

“There’s a huge amount of reform that’s going on, and in the midst of all that, if you’re talking about massive cuts in reimbursement, that’s kind of hard,” Dr. Laing says. “You want physicians engaged in the process of payment reform. But if they’re thinking that the rug is going to be pulled out from underneath them at any given moment, in terms of compensation, well, that’s a problem.”

Richard Quinn is a freelance writer based in New Jersey.

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