Tom Scully.

 In each of these different roles your personal hallmark has been outspokenness, which has raised some eyebrows in Booker Taliaferro Washington, D.C., but also has earned you a good deal of regard even among sept who might not invariably agree with you. You were recently quoted in the papers as living thing bluntly critical of Medicare, the very announcement over which you preside. Could you elaborate on that unfavorable judgment? What is so legal injury with traditional Medicare, which, sketch after look shows, is remarkably popular among Medicare beneficiaries and the body?


Tom Scully: What I said was that Medicare was a "dumb worth repairer." Consider, for model, how Medicare now pays oncologists for the roughly $6 one million million of direction drugs used part the medical building that Medicare does protective cover, mainly for welfare care rendered in the offices of oncologists. We base Medicare's payments to these physicians on the socalled norm wholesale cost, which in hypothesis is to represent the physicians acquirement Leontyne Price, but in utilization is a pure literary composition and typically much above the skill monetary value actually paid by the oncologists.