Health On The Hill: May 25, 2010

Jackie Judd, Kaiser Family Foundation; Mary Agnes Carey, Kaiser Health News

The House of Representatives may vote on legislation this week that would stop a scheduled June 1 payment cut for doctors who accept Medicare physicians. Lawmakers may also act to extend higher Medicaid payment to states and subsidies to help laid-off workers purchase health care coverage. Separately, Republicans have begun to criticize the Obama administration’s nomination of Donald Berwick to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

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<h1>Health On The Hill: May 25, 2010</h1>
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 Jackie Judd, <a href="http://www.kff.org/">Kaiser Family Foundation</a>; Mary Agnes Carey, Kaiser Health NewsThe House of Representatives may vote on legislation this week that would stop a scheduled June 1 payment cut for doctors who accept Medicare physicians. Lawmakers may also act to extend higher Medicaid payment to states and subsidies to help laid-off workers purchase health care coverage. Separately, Republicans have begun to criticize the Obama administration’s nomination of <a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/legacy/306B6973-E002-4D40-A09F-28D5AC1F7CB9">Donald Berwick</a> to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). <a href="https://www.kff.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2010/05/052510_khn_hoth_audio.mp3">Listen to audio version</a> (.mp3) or <a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/legacy/71846A89-18BD-45CB-A328-88B6D600B80B">Read Transcript</a><ul><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/052510-health-on-the-hill/?share=x">				Share on X (Opens in new window)				X			</a></li><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/052510-health-on-the-hill/?share=facebook">				Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)				Facebook			</a></li><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/052510-health-on-the-hill/?share=linkedin">				Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)				LinkedIn			</a></li><li><a href="mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Health%20On%20The%20Hill%3A%20May%2025%2C%202010&body=https%3A%2F%2Fkffhealthnews.org%2Fnews%2F052510-health-on-the-hill%2F&share=email">				Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)				Email			</a></li><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/052510-health-on-the-hill/#print?share=print">				Print (Opens in new window)				Print			</a></li><li>				<a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/052510-health-on-the-hill/view/republish/">					Republish This Story				</a>			</li></ul><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/about-us">KFF Health News</a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF—an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about <a href="https://www.kff.org/about-us">KFF</a>.<a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-briefing/">Subscribe</a> to KFF Health News' free Morning Briefing.This <a target="_blank" href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/052510-health-on-the-hill/">article</a> first appeared on <a target="_blank" href="https://kffhealthnews.org">KFF Health News</a> and is republished here under a <a target="_blank" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.<img src="https://kffhealthnews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/kffhealthnews-icon.png?w=150" style="width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;">
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