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This past summer, Congress appointed a super committee to come up with a plan for cutting the nation’s escalating debt.  To this end, this bipartisan group of lawmakers may be considering cuts to Medicare Part B, the federal program that reimburses physicians for medicines they administer as treatment to America's seniors. 
 
Unlike pills that patients can take themselves at home, Part B drugs must be injected or infused under the direction of a healthcare provider in a professional medical setting, like medicines for cancer patients.  Part B must be kept off the table.  

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