Fierce Health Payers October 22, 2021
President Joe Biden expressed major doubts that adding new benefits to Medicare will make it in a more than trillion-dollar infrastructure package being negotiated in Congress.
Biden admitted during a CNN town hall Thursday that key centrist senators have an issue with adding dental, vision and hearing benefits to Medicare. The remarks come as Democrats in Congress start to coalesce around the infrastructure package.
The president said he supported adding the benefits to Medicare and that “it’s not costly in relative terms, especially if we allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices.” But he admitted adding the new benefits is a “reach” because of opposition from centrist Democratic Sens. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia.
Biden said...
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