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Private Fee for Service Pffs Plans

In The Public Interest: Not With a Bang But a Whimper: Did Fee-For-Service Medicine Just Die?

Larry McNeely | Posted 12.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Private Fee for Service (PFFS) Plans, Nancy Pelosi, Health Care Reform, Cost Controls, Medicare, Quality Care Coalition, Health Care, Politics News
Larry McNeely

A little-noticed detail of a health care reform agreement made in the House this week could, years from now, potentially overshadow any other story from this year's tumultuous debate.

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"Saving" Medicare by Killing It : Another Victory For Republicans, Industry and Their Lobbyists

John Geyman | Posted 07.09.2008 | Living

Read More: Private Fee for Service (PFFS) Plans, Obama Healthcare, Medicare Plus Choice, Medicare Prescription Drug, Universal Health Care, Medicare, Privatize Medicare, The Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act, Grover Norquist, Living News
John Geyman

Even after the House gave overwhelming bipartisan support to the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act by a vote of 355-59 (including 129 Republican votes), the Senate fell two votes short to overcome a presidential veto.

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