In the flood of bills leading up to August recess, Sens. Patty Murray (D-WA) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) on Wednesday (July 30) introduced legislation to extend by two years an ACA policy that temporarily bumped up Medicaid payments for primary care physician services to match Medicare rates. The bill also would expand the higher pay rates to certain women's services. Medicaid covers about 66 million people, more than 6 million of which gained coverage with the expansion of Medicaid in...