Medicare and Medicaid
PHA: Desperate Corporate Hospital Lobbyists Now Targeting Senate Military and Domestic Spending Bill in Latest Effort to Keep Bureaucrats, Not Physicians, in Charge of Hospitals
Published in Mental Health Law Weekly, May 31st, 2008
After failing twice before in their efforts to limit Medicare beneficiaries' choice of hospitals by shutting down physician owned hospitals, the lobbyists are now swarming the Senate Appropriations Committee, which is considering a supplemental appropriations bill that would provide funds for current military operations and expand some GI benefits.
"Their plan is to convince the Appropriations Committee, which includes some of the Senate's most distinguished members, to block Medicare...
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