Open Letter to Two NPR Reporters

Ms. Chana Joffe-Walt and Mr. David Kestenbaum

All Things Considered

National Public Radio

Dear Ms. Joffe-Walt and Mr. Kestenbaum:



Your excellent February 26, 2010, report on the history of how government officials chose the different methods that Medicare has used over the years to determine doctors' pay is frightening because…

… in your report, Joe Califano, a chief architect of Medicare, admits that the first method of determining doctors' pay was chosen for political reasons, namely, to...