Posted on 04/14/2015 6:56:21 PM PDT by GIdget2004
TheHill
HEALTHCARE April 14, 2015 - 09:45 PM EDT Senate overwhelmingly approves House 'doc fix' bill
 BY PETER SULLIVAN AND SARAH FERRIS 5 Shares TWEET SHARE MORE The Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a $200 billion Medicare reform package that will end a two-decade old headache for Congress known as the "doc fix."
The rare bipartisan vote, which passed 92-8, marks one of the biggest achievements yet from the newly GOP-controlled Congress. It will now head to President Obama, who has promised to sign the bill.
“It’s another reminder of a new Republican Congress that’s back to work,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wrote in a statement.
The nearly three-hour voting period began shortly after 7 p.m. on Tuesday, just before a key deadline that would have triggered double-digit cuts to Medicare doctors. The final votes were cast just before 10 p.m.
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A bipartisan agreement that socialist medicine is the American way.
GOP backs Zerocare.
Apparently, no roll call vote.
Oh, happy days, Yertle. You just backed Obamacare.
Again.
Trillions more to Medicare, Medicaid, and ObamaCare. Our nation probably has only a few months left.
Senate Approves a Bill on Changes to Medicare
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3279267/posts
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Tuesday approved sweeping changes in the way Medicare pays doctors, clearing the bill for President Obama and resolving an issue that has bedeviled Congress and the Medicare program for more than a decade.
The 92-to-8 vote in the Senate, following passage in the House last month by an overwhelming vote of 392 to 37, was a major success for Republicans, who devised a solution to a complex policy problem that had frustrated lawmakers of both parties. Mr. Obama has endorsed the bill, saying it “could help slow health care cost growth.”
The bill, drafted in the House in negotiations between Speaker John A. Boehner and Representative Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader, also extends the Children’s Health Insurance Program for two years, through 2017.
Without action by Congress, doctors would have faced a 21 percent cut in Medicare fees on Wednesday or Thursday. Senate leaders cleared the way for final passage by allowing votes on several amendments sought by liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans.
That prediction will be easy to check ... we just wait a couple of months ... LOL ...
So what did they cut to fund this additional spending? Oh, wait, the Republicans are in charge, never mind.
For your information ...
Eight senators opposed the bill, including Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Marco Rubio (R-Florida) who are both seeking the presidency in 2016. They were joined by Sens. Lee, David Perdue (R-Georgia), Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) and Richard Shelby (R-Ala).
Sen. Pand Paul (R-Ky.), another 2016 candidate, and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who is also considering a run, voted to support the bill.
92-8, we’re Greece. I see them long hard times to come.
You posted this crap on a similar thread as if it means something. To me, the Republicans who voted NO are heroes.
I thought it was useful information ... because that’s what people always want to know ... :-) ...
No, you were trying to be cute, like your asinine “joke” accusing Governor Palin of shooting a black guy on that Walter Scott thread.
I thought it was useful info. It was what I wanted to know. I missed the joke about Palin and can’t see how this could be similar (or cute.) What did I miss?
I guess you didn’t get the joke, there, with Palin ... eh? Try working on your sense of humor ... LOL ...
It was a joke ... using Palin in a way that was ridiculous ... he forgot to laugh ... LOL ...
It was on another thread, weeks ago. He’s got a long memory and likes to hassle people on jokes he doesn’t get ... :-) ...
Yeah, it was so funny that the Mods nuked it and your subsequent conments.
Slapping my knee here hysterically.
Glad you “get the joke” now ... :-) ...
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