House passes SGR bill with mandate pay-for

House passes SGR bill with mandate pay-for-politico: A once-bipartisan proposal to finally reform the deeply flawed way that Medicare pays doctors succumbed Friday to the partisan politics of Obamacare, particularly the unpopular individual mandate. The House voted 238-181 to replace the payment formula — the complicated equation that for more than a decade has required annual “doc fixes” — and to pay for it by delaying Obamacare’s individual mandate for five years.