Sequester Cuts To Hit Healthcare Hard by Noam N.Levey. The Los Angeles Times. February 27, 2013.
The 2% reduction in Medicare payment to doctors is smaller than cuts faced by public health and research programs. Layoffs at university research laboratories are already taking place in anticipation of the cuts. Nationally as many as 46,000 public health jobs have been eliminated in the last five years with more cuts due in the sequester. The National Institutes of Health is looking to lose $l.6 billion by the end of the year.
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