02.22.12
Prevention Politics—Congress Reduces Funding for Health Prevention Fund
On Feb. 17th, in an extremely shortsighted move, Congress voted to cut $5 billion from the Affordable Care Act’s health prevention fund to offset the cost of delaying (by 10-months) scheduled cuts to Medicare physician payments, known colloquially as the “doc fix.” This represents a one-third reduction in the fund’s current budget. The prevention fund, […]