U. S. lawmakers are worried that older American citizens who are relying on Medicare may lose their access to health care services. To overcome these fears, the U. S. Senate passed a resolution on Friday that aims to prevent high cuts in the fees of doctors, which is paid by the Federal health care program.

This will cost the U. S. Government $6.4 billion and will also ensure that the 21% reduction in payments that was expected to be started from Friday will be reversed. It was expected that this will lead to some doctors refusing to see patients covered under Medicare. The latest resolutions are termed doc fix by the U. S. Senators and were approved without a roll-call vote by the Senators from both the U. S. parties.

Experienced Senators pointed that the legislation was needed to protect the interests of those, who would have been severely impacted by the changes.

Some changes to the latest legislation also ensured that it did not receive criticism from the Republican Senators. The Republicans are happy that the legislation has been passed without adding to the already high Federal deficits.

After these measures were approved by the U. S. Senate, Medicare officials confirmed that they will start processing claims for June, according to the lower rates.

The Senate is still facing a lot of problems over various issues including $40 billion in added unemployment benefits.