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Medicare and physicians, 50 years together: it’s complicated

Fifty years ago last week, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed Medicare (and Medicaid) into law. Medicare’s relationship with physicians since then can best be described as a complicated one.

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Editor's note: This blog post first appeared on the ACP Advocate Blog of the American College of Physicians.

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