Doggett Introduces Medigap Changes Backed By Beneficiary Advocates

House Ways & Means health subcommittee Chair Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) is backing legislation to ease Medigap enrollment for Medicare beneficiaries -- a policy that beneficiary advocates have urged lawmakers to tuck into the Senate budget reconciliation package, but which was not included in the Senate’s recent framework for the package. Doggett, along with a group of more than 30 House lawmakers, on Thursday (July 22) introduced the Close the Medigap Act, aimed at boosting beneficiary protections for Medicare supplemental insurance,...