Congress Rewrites Its Own Law For Political Expedience
Years ago Congress passed a series of laws designed to balance the federal budget because that is what the people wanted. Part of this included a reduction in the rate paid for Medicare patients to visit the doctor.
Now Congress has flipped, thus proving that no law – even ones they themselves passed – are safe:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In what likely is the last big showdown between President George W. Bush and congressional Democrats over the popular Medicare health care program, the U.S. Congress on Tuesday voted to override his veto of a bill to keep doctors’ payments from being slashed.
By enacting the measure over Bush’s objections, Congress rescinded an 11 percent reduction in government payments to doctors treating elderly Medicare patients.
Just hours after Bush vetoed the legislation, the Senate voted 70-26 to overturn him, following the House of Representatives, which voted 383-41 to override. The bill now becomes law.
Twenty-one Republicans in the Senate and 153 in the House broke ranks with Bush and joined majority Democrats to overturn the veto in this election-year vote.
Isn’t it great to know that we can count on Congress to keep their promises? Except when it is an election year and they need to shore up votes from people on the federal dole that is …
This is why we have a Constitution. And if we would have stuck to it, we never would have to worry about how much money government pays for people to go see the doctor because government would not be doing such things.
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