Lawmakers rush to avert looming Medicare cuts

“The Supporting Health Care Providers During the Covid-19 Pandemic Act, which has bipartisan support from leadership in the House and Senate, would blunt some of the cuts — but not all.

'A pandemic is not the time to be cutting access to doctors for patients on Medicare,' Kim Schrier, (D-Wash.) who introduced the bill along with Steven Horsford (D-Nev.), said in a statement.”