"Medicare Rationing Begins in January, 2011," an article by AAPS Director Richard Amerling, M.D., is featured today at Medical Progress Today.

Here's an excerpt from the article:

House and Senate Democrat leaders, and President Obama, argue that they can "pay for" health insurance "reform" by cutting $500 billion from Medicare spending over the next decade—largely through arbitrary reimbursement cuts,— without reducing the quality of care delivered to beneficiaries.

Yet, in January, 2011, Medicare will implement a new payment system for patients receiving dialysis for end stage kidney disease that will severely ration care to this vulnerable (and largely minority) population based on equally arbitrary payment reductions. These patients will be the unfortunate canary in the Medicare coal mine: "reform" legislation will expose millions of Medicare patients to rationing and reduced quality of care.

Read the entire article at: http://www.medicalprogresstoday.com/spotlight/spotlight_indarchive.php?id=1835 or click here to listen to audio podcast with Dr. Amerling.

Dr. Amerling is also author of the Physicians' Declaration of Independence, Director of Outpatient Dialysis at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, and Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.