http://www.moneynews.com/Economy/Payroll-Tax-Medicare-Cuts/2011/12/22/id/421833
Well, once again, they hung the guillotine over our necks and they averted a nearly 30% pay cut for those of us in the trenches doing the work.
This charade happens every year. I am completely sick and tired of this annual ritual. CMS halts the processing of Medicare payments for the first 14 days of every January to give Congress "time to find ways to avoid the pay cut". CMS knows there would be a massive walk-out/revolt by doctors if the cuts came through. We still don't know what the fee schedule for 2012 will be, nor what the deductible will be. They'll figure it out well into 2012, with all of us scrambling to program billing software with the new fee schedules well into the new year. Their (Congress') incompetence, contempt for the citizen, lack of knowledge of what it's like to be working in America today....(grumble grumble) GGGRRRRRRRRRR.
In a bizarre way, I actually want the cuts to happen. It would force their hand to restructure a bankrupt government entitlement with ever increasing Medusa-like growth.
