Gavin Magor
Finally, if you are a military family or veteran receiving medical coverage under Tricare, the new law prevents any cuts to those services because they are paid out at the same rate as Medicare.
The AARP and the American Medical Association had targeted 10 Republican Senators through heavy advertising over the July 4 holiday to lobby for their votes to be changed to support the bill. Despite this -- or perhaps because of it -- the President vetoed the bill, hoping that the renegade senators could be brought back into line and would not override him. However, the Republican senators, who in some cases are up for re-election this year, refused to flop after having flipped and -- as we saw -- were joined by more colleagues. They, unlike the president, might have a political future after Jan. 2009.
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