Scarborough overstates cost of doctor pay fix by a factor of three
October 21, 2009 1:24 pm ET
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SUMMARY: MSNBC host Joe Scarborough falsely asserted that "the White House did something very quietly yesterday that The Wall Street Journal and others are talking about this morning. ... [T]hey bought off the doctors' lobby by hiding about a $750 billion payoff to the doctors' lobby interests." However, the Journal reported on October 21 that Senate Democrats' plan to prevent scheduled cuts to Medicare physician payments costs about $250 billion over 10 years -- one-third of what Scarborough claimed.
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