There are More Healthy Voters than Sick Voters

The one abiding principle of the politics of medicine: Overprovide to the healthy and underprovide to the sick:

• CMS, the agency that runs Medicare, is proposing a set of tweaks that would raise the fees Medicare pays for primary care by 6% to 8%.
• Medicare payments to cardiologists would be cut by 11% overall, with certain procedures (echocardiograms, cardiac catheterizations) facing steeper cuts.
• Radiologists would see a cut of about 20% for doing high-tech scans such as CTs and MRIs.

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