Experts Seek Reforms Despite Rosier Medicare Trust Fund Report; Congress Considers FDA User Fee, Mental Health Bills

Health care experts and lawmakers are calling for reforms to the Medicare Part A trust fund despite last week’s trustees report showing the fund has an additional two years before it becomes insolvent, and the House and Senate are advancing bills that would reauthorize FDA’s user-fee programs and increase access to mental health and substance use disorder treatments. Medicare trustees pushed back the trust fund’s insolvency date from 2026 -- when trustees had for years projected the trust fund would...