House Majority Leader: Senate Doc Fix a "Band-Aid."
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House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) doesn't think much of a temporary deal the Senate's agreed to that would prevent doctors who take Medicaid patients from absorbing a 21 percent pay cut.
"This is a Band-Aid at best," said Hoyer. The leader noted that the House already approved a "permanant" fix to the pending pay cut.
The House married its version of the legislation to a tax and jobs meaure that would extend unemployment insurance to those out of the work. However, the Senate could not reach a deal on that section of the legislation. So Senate leaders arranged an agreement on just the so-called "doc fix."
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But that hasn't impressed House leaders who have denounced the arrangement.
"We want to put pressure on the bill," Hoyer said of efforts to okay the overarching legislation.