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people s spines. tell us what the cuts are and why you are objecting. thanks for having us. basically medicare is looking for ways to save money on physician reimbursements. we are working collaboratively to make recommended cuts responsibly that allow patients access to care. we with offer a more cost effective alternative to hospital care including office procedure suites and ambulatory surgery centers that allow us to perform minimally invasive procedures. you get a needle in your spine, concrete in your spine, crazy stuff. but you keep people out of the hospital. that s correct. why do you claim the cuts are dire? medicare proposed cuts that an average come out to 24% but pain management ranges as high as 58% for basic epidural,
clearly that we should make sure that current beneficiaries as much as possible are not affected. but we should look at what can we do in the out years so that over time some of these programs are more sustainable. i ve said that means testing on medicare meaning people like myself if, i m going to be turning 50 in a week, so i m starting to think a little bit more about medicare eligibility. i m going to get my aarp card soon and the discounts. congressman, medicare means testing, president s for it, are you? no. but let me say this, chuck. medicare there s been a lot of misunderstanding about this. part b your physician reimbursements and part d, which are prescription drugs are already means tested.
with should look at what we can do in the out years so that these programs are more sustainable. those going on medicare, meaning people like myself i m going to be turning 50 in the next week. so i m starting to think a little bit more about medicare eligibility. yeah, i m going to get my aarp card soon and the discounts. congressman, medicare means testing. the president is for it. are you? no. but let me say this, chuck. medicare and there s been a lot of misunderstanding about this because part b of medicare, which is physician reimbursements, and part d, which is prescription drugs, are already means testing. in other words, the higher income, the more coinsurance you put in. that s current law. so if the president is saying, as part of a big deal, we can look at some of those things,
that current beneficiaries, as much as possible, are not affected. with should look at what we can do in the out years so that these programs are more sustainable. those going on medicare, meaning people like myself i m going to be turning 50 in the next week. so i m starting to think a little bit more about medicare eligibility. yeah, i m going to get my aarp card soon and the discounts. congressman, medicare means testing. the president is for it. are you? no. but let me say this, chuck. medicare and there s been a lot of misunderstanding about this because part b of medicare, which is physician reimbursements, and part d, which is prescription drugs, are already means testing. in other words, the higher income, the more coinsurance you