Plan cuts Medicare GME role

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A Republican proposal would reduce Medicare's role in paying for graduate medical education (GME) and would limit residency slots to 110% of the number of U.S. medical school graduates. The private sector would be forced to begin supporting GME, and U.S. residency programs have to accept fewer non-U.S. graduates. However, while the plan for reducing the number of residency slots has been developed, there is no timetable for implementing private funding, a situation that could lead to a funding shortfall for GME. The plan would also offer full-payment for GME for only five years in order to reduce the number of medical specialists.

Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools, Colleges and universities, Administration of Public Health Programs, Health Care Services, Graduate & Professional Schools, Finance, Political activity, Medical care, Medicare, Graduate medical education, Johnson, Nancy (American legislator)

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Dear Congress: an MD's letter from the front

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Congress should be aware of opinions that physicians have about health care. For instance, they believe that high health costs are driven by the incidence of AIDS, homelessness, smoking-related diseases and the aging population, not by physicians. They believe that costs will continue to rise unless tort reform is implemented and malpractice costs are reduced. In addition, physicians feel overwhelmed by government regulations. They oppose global budgets because they are not in the best interests of their patients and believe that they, not lawyers, should help reform the health care system.

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Delegates back national health advisory board

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The American Medical Assn House of Delegates supported health care reforms including managed competition and the creation of a national health care advisory. The board would develop health policy except in such matters as global budgets and setting payment limits. Other decisions by the delegates included setting conditions to limit managed competition. The American College of Physicians, which favors cost containment, approved the delegates' position but criticised the rejection of global budgets.

Conferences, meetings and seminars, American Medical Association. House of Delegates

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