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Arkansas Joins Hundreds of State and National Physician Groups Urging Congress to Fix Medicare Now

CHICAGO – More than 750 organizations joined the American Medical Association (AMA) to call on Congress to pass legislation that would permanently eliminate Medicare's flawed sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula and strengthen Medicare for America's seniors. In a letter to House and Senate leadership, the groups strongly urged…

More states embracing Medicaid expansion.

Bloomberg News (2/3) reports that Republican-led states that previously rejected Medicaid expansion under the ACA “have found a way to embrace it, under pressure from businesses to tap the flood of federal dollars it brings.” Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam (R), for instance, called lawmakers into a special session…