Modern Healthcare February 9, 2018
After a five-hour shutdown, Congress early Friday passed a massive budget deal that will have a significant impact across virtually every sector of the healthcare industry.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) forced lawmakers to miss a midnight deadline to keep the government’s light on, criticizing his colleagues for adding to the nation’s ballooning deficit.
“I can’t in all good honesty, in all good faith, just look the other way because my party is now complicit in the deficits,” Paul said during his filibuster.
Eventually, a bipartisan coalition of senators came together to pass the bill on a 71-28 vote. The House, in a 240-186 vote, approved the bill at 5:30 a.m. ET. President Donald Trump signed the continuing resolution a couple...
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