Congress Overrides Bush Veto of Medicare Bill
15th July 2008
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Loading ...As he has throughout his nearly eight years in the White House, President Bush cast his lot with insurance companies and big corporations when he vetoed a bill today that would strengthen Medicare for the nation's seniors.
But just hours later, the House (on a vote of 383–41) and the Senate (on a 70-26 vote) overrode Bush's veto. Passage of the bill stops the Bush administration’s proposed cuts in payments to doctors who treat Medicare patients.
If those cuts had gone into effect, as many as 60 percent of physicians would have been forced to stop treating new Medicare patients and been forced to drop others from their rolls, according to an American Medical Association.