Hill January 3, 2024
Inflation is threatening health care access across the country as the gap widens between the cost of medical services and the coverage rates paid out by Medicare, Rep. Larry Bucshon (R-Ind.) warned last month.
Members of Congress from both sides of the aisle joined The Hill’s “Medicare Drug Price Negotiation: How to Ensure Access and Equity” event, sponsored by the Alliance for Aging Research, to discuss the effects of the first 10 drugs chosen for Medicare price negotiation under the Inflation Reduction Act.
Bucshon, vice chair of the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, expanded during the event on an op-ed he wrote with other lawmakers in The Hill in October.
It said the Medicare payment system “fails to adequately...
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