Odessa medical community weighs in on Fiscal Cliff - Odessa American

As the “fiscal cliff’ looms in the nation’s near future, many in the medical community are expecting the effects of spending cuts to ripple directly through to Medicare funding.

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“If they don’t solve it, it is going to be a big problem,” said Ventolini, regional dean of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine of the Permian Basin.

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