Hospital lobby dismayed by budget deal, SGR fix

Hospital lobby dismayed by budget deal, SGR fix-politico: The nation’s hospital lobby is reacting strongly and angrily to the new congressional budget deal, saying that facilities will remain on “an endless merry-go-round of making ends meet” because of how the two-year agreement excludes them from sequester relief. The deal not only doesn’t shelter hospitals from the cuts they absorbed from the sequester but extends those reductions to 2023, beyond the original 10-year window in the Budget Control Act.