California Academy Of Family Physicians Lauds Congress On Medicare Veto Override; Call On CA Legislators To Similarly Rescind Medi-Cal Cuts

The California Academy of Family Physicians today congratulated the state’s Congressional delegation on protecting seniors’ health care by overriding President Bush’s veto of key Medicare legislation. Both the House and Senate yesterday rejected the President’s attempt to block legislation canceling a 10.6% cut in physician pay that took effect July 1 in the federal Medicare program.

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Filed under: Medicare / Medicaid / Tricare on July 26th, 2008