[sickoflibs]

RE :” The Senate passed legislation Friday to spare doctors a 21 percent cut in Medicare payments — but the last-ditch effort did not come in time. Moments after the Senate acted, Medicare announced it would begin processing claims it has already received for June at the lower rate. The reason: the House cannot act on the fix until next week. ...The bill passed by the Senate delays the cuts until the end of November — after congressional elections — when lawmakers hope the political climate is better for passing a more permanent, and expensive, solution....The AMA says continuing financial uncertainty could undermine Medicare, which covers 46 million seniors and disabled people. Physicians may stop taking new Medicare patients, and some may drop out of the program altogether”

It is a shame that Republicans couldn't block this because this fix was specifically removed from Obama-care to make it look deficit neutral to the CBO. The cuts are part of Obama-care. I guess they are scared of getting blamed.

[kevinm13]

So now what would the CBO price the monstrosity of 0bamacare? By the time it gets implemented (lets keep praying it gets overturned after November) in 2014, the cost will be up to several trillion bucks. Just chump change.