By Joe Cantlupe – HealthLeaders Media The Senate has cleared the way to vote on delaying a 21.2% physician pay cut vote in Medicare reimbursement until September 30. In a procedural action, the Senate voted Tuesday to move on a $150 billion package of legislation, including tax extenders and unemp …

A lot of seniors are worried about no longer having a doctor to treat them.

Physicians warn that a proposed 21% reduction would result in closed clinics and layoffs.

If they do health care through reconciliation, it will be the same consequence. It would be a smaller bill,” Lieberman said.The Gang of 14 averted a plan in 2005 by Republican Senate leaders to abolish the filibuster for judicial nominees. Having to take the bill through the committee process woul …

Even some Republicans howled, but the impasse didn’t end until Bunning got a vote on his changes. Which he lost. Kit Bond of Missouri, for example, placed a hold last summer on Martha Johnson, the White House choice to run the General Services Administration. They’re threatening to use a relatively …