{"id":18606,"date":"2021-08-05T11:56:43","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T15:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18606"},"modified":"2021-08-05T11:56:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T15:56:43","slug":"22-senate-uses-murky-math-as-it-shelves-drug-pricing-rule-to-fund-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18606","title":{"rendered":"2+2=? Senate Uses Murky Math as It Shelves Drug Pricing Rule to Fund Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Michael McAuliff for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>The Senate\u2019s release of its bipartisan infrastructure plan signals that lawmakers are poised to throw former President Donald Trump\u2019s belated bid to lower Medicare drug prices under the bus \u2014 not to mention trains, bridges, tunnels and broadband connections.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because the massive spending bill is the first of two likely to at least delay the so-called Medicare rebate rule released at the end of the Trump administration, which has yet to take effect. Congress would use the projected costs of that rule to help pay for more than half a trillion dollars in new spending on infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>What has infrastructure spending got to do with Medicare drug rebates?\u00a0 Continue reading the article <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/medicare-drug-rebate-rule-senate-murky-math-fund-infrastructure-bill\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Michael McAuliff for Kaiser Health News) The Senate\u2019s release of its bipartisan infrastructure plan signals that lawmakers are poised<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-legislative-update","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18607,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18606\/revisions\/18607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}