State of Reform October 27, 2022
Official Washington is focused for now on the midterm election, but, when the dust settles on those races, attention quickly will turn to the pressing matters teed up for Congress’s lame-duck session. While an emerging wish list of potential bills, with champions located both inside and outside of Congress, includes many that won’t make the final cut, it is more likely than not that significant health care provisions will get approved before the end of the year.
Lame duck sessions — the legislative interludes between elections and the terms of newly elected officeholders — have become productive periods in recent years. In December 2020, Congress approved an omnibus appropriations bill that included major new funding for the nation’s...
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