while the highest cost of the failed bush policies are counted in the number of dead in iraq, other critical programs are being cut in order to fund the administration’s errant foreign policies.

From the American Association of Medical Colleges:

Bush Budget Cuts Will Cripple U.S. Teaching Hospitals and Erode Medical Progress

“The AAMC strongly opposes the administration’s proposal to slash Medicare payments to America’s teaching hospitals. Cutting indirect medical education (IME) payments by more than 60 percent, combined with other Medicare cuts affecting all hospitals, will have devastating results. Millions of Medicare patients—as well as the uninsured, the disabled, and the severely ill—rely on teaching hospitals for health care and community services. Such unprecedented cuts to these institutions will endanger their ability to provide the full spectrum of patient care and treatment, erode their fragile trauma and emergency services, and impede the progress they have made in advancing the health of all Americans through education and medical research.”

You can read the full article here and look at this special report for more details.