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Scanning for budget cut

Fri., Dec. 16, 2011

I was struck by the full-page ad taken out by the American College of Radiology Association in The Spokesman-Review (Dec. 5), featuring a one-third page picture of Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers while thanking her for co-sponsoring H.R. 3269, the Diagnostic Imaging Services Access Protection Act of 2011.

This act will, among other things, provide patients on Medicare with access to diagnostic X-ray exams apparently threatened by a $1.5 billion cut in Medicare proposed by the Obama administration. As a friend pointed out, “If you protect money from one area, you’re probably taking it from another.”

So I wonder, is the savings coming from the $4.2 billion cut in food stamps proposed during Thanksgiving week by the House Republicans?

Tom Webb

Spokane

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