MedPage Today December 23, 2019
-Bipartisanship ruled in Congress last week — but not in a good way, says Robert Laszewski
Healthcare special interests: $400 billion. Consumers: zero.
That’s the Congressional healthcare score card for December.
As the year wound down and must pass year-end spending bills were completed — and with that any chance of attaching and approving healthcare legislation — the special interests won big and consumers lost big.
Employers, unions, and insurance companies won big with the repeal of the “Cadillac” tax on high-cost benefit plans at a cost of $200 billion over 10 years as well as the repeal of the health insurance tax (HIT), and the 2.3% medical device tax sales tax. The total cost for repealing just these things...
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