Not since the Clintons' attempt to take over American health care has there been such a Beltway power grab as this.

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There has been a pay-cut that has taken effect once before in 2002, it was a five percent cut, and doctors mostly just stuck with the program and did take care of patients, but really since then doctors' pay has been largely frozen or they've got perhaps one percent increases.

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Since the failure of the Clinton national health care plan in 1994, the president has been forced to take an incremental approach.

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