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Medicare Showdown
New England Journal of Medicine, 07/24/08

Iglehart J - In a stunning rebuke of President George W. Bush, the House and Senate voted July 15 in a strong bipartisan fashion to override a veto he had issued only hours earlier, erasing a scheduled reduction of 10.6% in the fees that Medicare pays physicians. At the risk of alienating the nation's doctors, Bush had vetoed the measure because he strongly objected to the way in which it covered the costs of eliminating the fee reduction: by cutting payments to private Medicare Advantage plans that contract with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to provide coverage to Medicare beneficiaries.

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