Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Dissing and dismissing the lame duck
Team Bush lost one Monday as Congress overrode the president’s veto over a bill that would have stopped a planned 10.6 percent cut in Medicare payments to doctors. The vote in the both houses was fairly large: 383 to 41 in the House, 70 to 26 in the Senate. This marks the only third time during the reign of Team Bush that Congress has opted not to simply roll over and show throat.
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I hope you realize that a 10.6% cut in payments is actually a 9.4% raise in payments as congress can only riase payments to programs by 20% each year. When you hear someone say we cut this by 10% they actually raised it by 10% so if you remember school lunches being cut by 13% in the Clinton years it actually rose by 7%. Politicians use this to their advantage as most people do not know this little trick.
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