{"id":195342,"date":"2008-07-15T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/15\/bush-vetoes-fair-doctor-pay-to-protect-hmo-executives\/"},"modified":"2008-07-15T17:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T22:59:00","slug":"bush-vetoes-fair-doctor-pay-to-protect-hmo-executives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/15\/bush-vetoes-fair-doctor-pay-to-protect-hmo-executives\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Vetoes Fair Doctor Pay to Protect HMO Executives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bush objects to the fact that subsidies for private insurers to participate in Medicare, more accurately a license to skim and further bankrupt the fund, have been reduced to avoid a doctor pay cut, and so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aL7QiLgydb2s&amp;refer=home\">he has vetoed the bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it looks like its time for an override vote, and the text for the attack ad writes itself, so I would say that it&#8217;s better than 50\/50 that the veto will be overridden.<\/p>\n<p>If it isn&#8217;t, watch as doctors, facing already low fees being cut by 10.6%, reduce services, and patients scream&#8230;.at Republicans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush objects to the fact that subsidies for private insurers to participate in Medicare, more accurately a license to skim and further bankrupt the fund, have been reduced to avoid a doctor pay cut, and so he has vetoed the bill. Well, it looks like its time for an override vote, and the text for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,1046,1045],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-healthcare","category-insurance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}