(16 Apr 2015)
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Washington - April 16, 2015
1. SOUNDBITE (English) President Obama:
"On a day like today we shouldn't be inside so I am very pleased to mark a significant bipartisan achievement and I want to congratulate Speaker Boehner and Leader Nancy Pelosi for work they did that helped make this happen. For the last 13 years we have been confronted with what's called a doc fix basically the way the law was written to deal with Medicaid payments to doctors there was always the danger each year that suddenly arbitrarily doctors payments would get cut off and that would be a significant danger to Medicare patients and obviously the doctors had a lot of trouble continuing to provide services. Not only does this legislation permanently fix payments to doctors but it also improves it because what it starts doing is encouraging payments based on quality and not the number of tests that are provided or the number of procedures but whether or not people actually start feeling better and it encourages us to continue to make the HealthCare system smarter without denying service."
2. Obama signing bill
3. Close of Obama signing bill
STORYLINE:
President Barack Obama has signed legislation permanently changing how Medicare pays doctors, a rare bipartisan achievement by Democrats and Republicans.
The bill overhauls a 1997 law that aimed to slow Medicare's growth by limiting reimbursements to doctors. Instead, doctors threatened to leave the Medicare program, and that forced Congress repeatedly to block those reductions.

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