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Weekend Update, February 27

Some quick takes, piping hot

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Feb 27, 2021
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Something to keep your eye on in March and April will be a legacy of Obama-era crisis legislation, wherein when Congress passes deficit-increasing bills, automatic provider-side Medicare cuts are theoretically triggered.

This got ignored a bunch of times under Trump (and even a few times under Obama), with big bipartisan m…

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