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Statement of Senator Barack Obama on the Medicare Bill

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Michael Ortiz, 202 228 5566

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Barack Obama today released the following statement on the Senate's vote to override the President's veto of the Medicare Reimbursement Act, H.R. 6331. The motion passed by a vote of 70-26.

"Today, the Senate stood alongside our nation's seniors and military families by rejecting the President's veto. Doctors are already facing double-digit increases in the cost of providing care, and without this important legislation, the 10 percent cut in reimbursement would have caused them to shut the door to many Medicare and Tricare beneficiaries.

"This Administration continues to play politics with the needs of everyday Americans, even as health care becomes increasingly unaffordable and inaccessible. We cannot allow health care for America's seniors and service members to be held hostage to Washington special interests."