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Leavitt warns of another Bush veto

 |  By HealthLeaders Media Staff  
   December 06, 2007

The Bush administration is threatening to veto any legislation that cuts payments to private insurers as a way to give physicians more money when treating Medicare patients. Beginning in 2008, physicians face a 10 percent pay cut when treating the elderly and disabled. If that occurs, some doctors say they will quit seeing new Medicare patients.

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