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Defend America on Monday, December 07, 2009 3:15:51 PM
Senate Clears Way for Home Health Care Cuts
Published: December 5, 2009
WASHINGTON — Snowflakes swirled
around the Capitol on Saturday, whipped by wintry winds, but on the
Senate floor inside, a heated debate raged as Democrats and Republicans
traded jabs over legislation to achieve President Obama’s goal of near-universal health insurance coverage.
By a vote of 53 to 41, the Senate on Saturday rejected a Republican
effort to block cutbacks in payments to home health agencies that
provide nursing care and therapy to homebound
Medicare beneficiaries.
Republicans
voted against the cuts, saying they would hurt some of the nation’s
most vulnerable citizens. Most Democrats supported the cutbacks, saying
they would eliminate waste and inefficiency in home care.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/health/policy/06health.html?_r=2
3 Democrats (Bayh, Nelson-NE, and Webb) voted with all the Republicans voting yes.