More spending: Congress faces multi-billion-dollar Medicare fix when it returns after midterms
will be under intense pressure when it returns from the midterm elections to approve billions of dollars in new funding to shore up Medicare, after a year in which rampant federal spending was blamed for inflation levels that haven’t been seen in 40 years.is on the horizon to essentially reverse billions' worth of scheduled payment reductions to doctors which are statutorily required but unpopular in Congress.
Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer will likely scramble to avoid a Medicare mess when they return to lead the lame duck Congress. Robert Moffit, Ph.D., a senior fellow in domestic policy at the Heritage Foundation and former Health and Human Services official in the Reagan administration, said he agrees the pressure is on to do something to avoid a bad result for seniors, and that the votes will likely be there.
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