Here are the policies and reforms that could reshape healthcare in the $2T bill just passed by the House

Fierce Health Payers November 19, 2021
Robert King

The House passed a massive, roughly $2 trillion infrastructure package that will give Medicare the power to narrowly negotiate prices on certain prescription drugs and close the Medicaid coverage gap.

The package, called the Build Back Better Act, advanced out of the House late Thursday by a vote of 220 to 213. It now heads to the Senate, where it could face further changes.

Here are the biggest healthcare items included in the package:

• Closing the Medicaid coverage gap. The legislation would give enhanced subsidies so eligible residents in states that did not expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act can buy coverage on the exchanges. The enhanced subsidies, which would apply to residents in the 12 nonexpansion states,...

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