Romney's Baffling Claim About Medicare Pay Cuts For Doctors

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<snip>Here's how he put it last week in his big economic speech in Ames, Iowa:

"It matters to the senior who needs to get an appointment with a medical specialist, but is told by one receptionist after another that the doctor isn't taking any new Medicare patients; because Medicare has been slashed to pay for Obamacare."

"Not true," says Harold Pollack, a professor of public health policy at the University of Chicago. "I'm honestly rather baffled at the arguments that Governor Romney is making."

Now it is true that the law envisions reductions in Medicare. And some of that money will help pay for the rest of the law. And there are problems in some places with doctors not being willing to accept Medicare patients. But those two things aren't actually connected.

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http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/11/02/164131510/romneys-baffling-claim-about-medicare-pay-cuts-for-doctors