The issue promises to be a divisive one. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says they’ll be targeting Republicans in the 2010 election cycles who vote no on the doc fix, because the DCCC claims Republicans are simply trying to avoid paying doctors what they deserve. That, in turn, would lead to fewer doctors accepting Medicare coverage and higher costs for all Americans.
"Times are tough and Seniors are already dealing with high prescription drug costs, the last thing they need is for House Republicans to increase their health care costs and anxiety by allowing Medicare to cut payments to their doctor," DCCC national press secretary Ryan Rudominer told the Hill.
Americans for Tax Reform and the Center for Fiscal Accountability said that was a scam.
“[The] bill is nothing but a poorly veiled attempt to sneak past taxpayers a massive healthcare-related cost. Honest accounting would have meant that this cost should have been part of the estimate for the already outrageously expensive government health bill passed by the House,” they said in a letter addressed to Congress.