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Should doctors take a pay cut?

Broadcast: Midmorning, 08/08/2007, 10:06 a.m.

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Reforming America's health care system has tended toward looking at reducing the price of prescription drugs. But some are considering the doctors' pay as another important factor.

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  • Peter Bach: is a pulmonary physician at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and a former senior adviser to Medicare and Medicaid.
  • Uwe Reinhardt: Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University.

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