NYT's The Caucus: Senate Fails to Block Cut in Doctors’ Medicare Fees

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http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/26/senate-fails-to-block-cut-in-doctors-medicare-fees/

June 26, 2008, 11:16 pm
Senate Fails to Block Cut in Doctors’ Medicare Fees
By David M. Herszenhorn

Senate Democrats came within one vote on Thursday night of pushing forward with a bill to prevent a 10 percent cut in Medicare payments to doctors, which will take effect next month without legislative action. And the only senators missing were John McCain of Arizona, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, and Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, who is ill.

And Mr. McCain’s absence made it likely that Democrats would seek to hold him at least partly responsible for the outcome.

Mr. McCain was campaigning in Ohio on Thursday and attended a fund-raiser in Cincinnati on Thursday night. Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee voted in favor of the Medicare legislation. He had been in Washington for a fundraiser earlier in the day.

A spokesman for the McCain campaign said he had no immediate comment.

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1. McCain is yet again absent from the senate. nt

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2. "Some Republicans snickered."

“People can chuckle all they want, but the senior citizens in America today and the health care delivery system in America today is not chuckling,” Mr. Reid continued.

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I hope this footage gets broadcasted and discussed for days and days on television.

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3. kick

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4. I vote to cut Congress' pay by 100%

What garbage.