title: Cut to the quick. Hospitals face bleak choices as Congress debates Medicare's future.
abstract: Deep slashes in Medicare funding would have a devastating effect not only on hospitals, but on their communities as well--from possible closure of some facilities, elimination of some services at others, and a re-examination of support for graduate medical education at some urban teaching hospitals. A look at the difficult choices ahead.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sandrick
mesh_terms: D002017:Budgets / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations / Q000191:economics; D003363:Cost Control / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D004469:Economics, Hospital / Q000639:trends*; D005845:Georgia; D006780:Hospitals, Rural / Q000191:economics; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching / Q000191:economics; D007484:Iowa; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D009825:Oklahoma; D014481:United States