Congress, Blocks Pay Cut for Doctors, Overriding Bush’s Veto

Congress overrides Bush's Medicare veto scheduled to take effect Tuesday, July 1, 2008 and cut 10.6% in Medicare payments to physicians. The US Congress canceled the reduction in Medicare payments to doctors treating elderly patients. Within hours of President Bush’s Veto Representatives voted 383-41 to override it. The Senate followed suit soon after, by a vote of 70-26.