Surprise Billing Concerns Prevent Senate Health Package From Speeding To The Floor

By Ariel Cohen / July 16, 2019 at 11:22 PM
Senate Republican leadership hotlined the health committee’s broad cost-cutting package in order to ascertain GOP concerns and discovered several senators were prepared to hold up floor action over the surprise billing provisions -- signaling that Senate leaders have work cut out for them before they can move broader legislation that is expected to merge the health committee's bill with drug-pricing measures from the Finance and Judiciary committees. “They ran a hotline on it on the Republican side,” Sen. Tim Kaine...


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