President Obama Praises Doc Fix Passage, Thanks Pelosi — and Boehner
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Bryant Avondoglio / Office of the Speaker(BIRMINGHAM, Ala.) — It’s not every day that the President openly applauds the Republican-led House of Representatives, much less House Speaker John Boehner. But that’s exactly what he did before a crowd in Birmingham Thursday night, praising Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi for passing the Doc Fix.
“The good news is that today the House of Representatives passed a bill. No, no. You think I’m joking — I’m not,” he said to some laughter at Lawson State Community College. “It was a bipartisan bill designed to make sure that doctors in our medicare system get paid on time.”
Boehner and Pelosi came together Thursday to strike a deal, repealing the Sustainable Growth Rate and replacing it with a long-term solution to Medicare repayment, as well as extending funding for community health centers for two years.
“I called the Speaker John Boehner and the Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and I said congratulations,” said President Obama. “They did good work today and they deserve credit and the House of Representatives deserves credit.”
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