Hatch and Bennett are idiots

[CardiacCoug]

As are all the other Republicans who would not vote to prevent a scheduled 10% cut in Medicare payments to physicians.

At least in Texas our Republican Senators had the common sense to vote to maintain Medicare payments at the current level. Physician margins for Medicare patients are non-existent -- some already lose money by taking care of Medicare patients and there would be massive opting out of Medicare by physicians if payments were cut another 10%. Unless you just want to get rid of Medicare completely (which wouldn't be a bad thing) it needs to at least be funded at its current level.

Doctors are the only profession dumb enough to let our payers (government and insurance companies) decide how much they will pay for our services. It's ridiculous.

Here is a rundown of how Senators voted.

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LI...te=00169#state