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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Larson said she had to leverage $500,000 from her second business to meet payroll when the state paused the center's Medicaid payments.
54% : He also reports that CMS is proposing a small cut to Medicare physician payments next year, while also seeking to encourage doctors to switch to different payment systems that reward quality and cost effectiveness.
49% : However, Jamie Dangers, director of federal affairs for Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, argued to reporters on a call this week it would both meaningfully limit access to the drugs and help Republicans fire up voters disappointed with the administration for not doing enough to reduce the number of abortions taking place after the fall of Roe v. Wade.
48% : Details: The case -- brought Tuesday by the Planned Parenthood affiliate covering Iowa and Nebraska, the nonprofit Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States, and the governments of Hennepin County, Minnesota, and King County, Washington -- argues that the Trump administration acted arbitrarily and capriciously when it terminated their grants and put out new guidance dictating what projects will receive support going forward.
47% : The goal of the change is to ensure Medicare reimbursements are more aligned to the actual costs of running a practice, which critics say the current system does not do.
45% : At stake is whether Americans should be able to access the most prevalent method of abortion, the pill mifepristone, by telehealth and through the mail.
45% : It would scrap the current formula used by CMS to calculate payment updates and instead use a formula linked to the Medicare Economic Index, which tracks yearly inflation updates to medical practice costs.
44% : "The pro-life base is so huge for the GOP, and if they feel abandoned, they're going to be less likely to get out and vote.
41% : BIPARTISAN BILL TARGETS DOC PAY -- A new bipartisan bill aims to change how doctors are paid by Medicare, seeking to avert pay cuts that have plagued the industry for years, POLITICO's Robert King reports.
39% : Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), a member of the Judiciary Committee and husband of one of the leading attorneys challenging the telemedicine abortion rule, has also vowed to push Blanche to settle the case.
38% : Leading up to the hearing, state and national anti-abortion groups and individual advocates have sent Blanche letters urging him to stop defending the Food and Drug Administration's 2023 policy that lifted the in-person dispensing requirement for mifepristone.
34% : TURNING UP THE HEAT -- Anti-abortion activists and their allies in Congress are escalating a monthslong pressure campaign aimed at extracting a promise from attorney general nominee Todd Blanche to settle the Trump administration's ongoing legal battle with Louisiana over mail order abortion pills, Alice reports.
25% : Even so: Some abortion opponents disagree with the strategy of pushing Blanche for a commitment to settle and warn it could backfire by slowing down the FDA's ongoing review of the safety of abortion pills.
24% : The Trump administration's crackdown on Medicaid fraud in Minnesota is upending the operations of thousands of providers and disrupting access to care, POLITICO's Amanda Chu and Robert King report.
23% : To avert a $2 billion Medicaid funding cut, the state suspended payments to Medicaid services deemed high risk for fraud and rushed to revalidate thousands of providers in just four months, a process that typically takes over a year.
20% : POLITICO's Robert King scooped that the Trump administration is asking lawmakers to preserve a controversial payment model intended to combat Medicare fraud.

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