Baucus Statement on Medicare Vote
Washington, DC – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) issued a
brief statement today following the Senate’s failure Thursday night to invoke cloture on
H.R. 6331, the House-passed version of the Medicare Improvements for Patients and
Providers Act. The bill, which passed in the House on Tuesday with a vote of 355-59,
would have provided $4 billion in improvements to the Medicare program for 44 million
American seniors, and would have blocked a 10.6 percent cut in reimbursement to
seniors’ doctors that will now take effect on July 1.
“Senators who voted against the Medicare bill last night just voted wrong. This bill
was bipartisan, with huge support in the House, and its failure in the Senate
jeopardizes seniors’ access to medical care, plain and simple,” Baucus said. “I will
keep calling on Congress to stand up for seniors, and I'll keep fighting for all these
good policies for seniors in the coming weeks. I expect that all Senators will be
urged by their constituents during this recess to do the right thing on Medicare.”
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