Pelosi Negotiation Bill Could Use Savings To Expand Medicare Benefits

A summary of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) long-awaited government drug price negotiation bill says that savings from the plan, unveiled Thursday (Sept. 19), could be used to add hearing, vision and dental benefits to Medicare. The text of the provision, however, has not been released and Pelosi’s office says that section of the legislation will be built out in committee based on savings from the other provisions. “The summary outlines some of our goals,” Pelosi’s office told Inside Health...