Bush Likely to Lose on Medicare Bill
Monday, 14. July 2008
In a July 11th article The Hill’s Manu Raju is reporting that even if President Bush vetoes the Medicare bill that the veto is likely to be overridden. Mr. Raju writes:
“President Bush is expected to lose a hard-fought battle with Congress over Medicare legislation as nine key Senate Republicans say they intend to vote to override his veto.
Eight of the GOP senators say they will stand by decisions to switch votes from no to yes when the bill came up this past week. Another senator who voted against the bill says he plans to support the override when the bill comes back after being rejected by Bush.”
This is great news for laboratories as the language to repeal the competitive bidding demonstration project is included in the bill.
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