For years now, I’ve had the debatable pleasure of writing about the high-stakes tedium of the “doc fix.” This is an annual ritual, like Arbor Day, except that instead of planting a tree, Congress gathers together and solemnly agrees to delay the scheduled “mandatory cuts” in Medicare payments to doctors, in order to appease the all-powerful American Medical Association. These cuts have been delayed so many times that by now they would be running well into double-digit percentages if they ever took effect. And so, of course, everyone knew they never would.
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