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Health care reform in Congress is unlikely to reform the Medicare physician payment system, and lawmakers are likely to settle for another one-year fix to block a reduction in payments to doctors, CQ Politics reports. The scheduled reduction in Medicare payment rates would be 22 percent without reform.

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