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[Laelth]

As I understand it, savings are supposed to come from preventative medicine and elimination of redundant testing and procedures, primarily. Those should both improve care and lower costs. Doctors do a lot of tests, for example, not because they are medically necessary but because they know Medicare will pay for them. The President hopes to eliminate this practice (and other near-fraudulent abuses of Medicare) in order to save some taxpayer money.

I hear your concerns, but I have very different reasons for opposing the President's plan. On this, I think he is right. Reform is needed. The question is what price are we willing to pay for these needed reforms. I am not willing to pay the price that the President is demanding.

:dem:

-Laelth