01/09/2025
RESPONSES/COMMENTS (MEDICARE)
RE: Medicare and Sequestration
From: Jeffrey Kass, DPM
We are still in sequestration. To my knowledge, this will continue through 2032. This Medicare sequestration is essentially a backstop because lawmakers could not reach an agreement on how to meet the maximum deficit amount for each fiscal year. If doctors have to incur the pain of their salary being reduced year after year, how do these lawmakers give themselves raises? And why aren't they mandated to share in the 2% reductions in their salaries? After all, they are the ones who can't balance the budget, not the doctors.
Jeffrey Kass, DPM, Forest Hills, NY
RESPONSES/COMMENTS (MEDICARE)
RE: Medicare and Sequestration
From: Jeffrey Kass, DPM
We are still in sequestration. To my knowledge, this will continue through 2032. This Medicare sequestration is essentially a backstop because lawmakers could not reach an agreement on how to meet the maximum deficit amount for each fiscal year. If doctors have to incur the pain of their salary being reduced year after year, how do these lawmakers give themselves raises? And why aren't they mandated to share in the 2% reductions in their salaries? After all, they are the ones who can't balance the budget, not the doctors.
Jeffrey Kass, DPM, Forest Hills, NY