tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 44

Medicare Reform: FRIST, HASTERT PROPOSE, PREMIUM SUPPORT COMPROMISE

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) and House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) shook up the stalled Medicare talks Nov. 12 with a compromise proposal on premium support, the direct competition between traditional Medicare and private plans included in the House's bill but not the Senate's. Premium support has been foremost among many thorny issues that have bedeviled efforts by negotiators to agree on a proposal to overhaul Medicare and add a drug benefit. The leadership competition proposal has garnered support from important quarters such as Democratic conferees John Breaux (LA) and Max Baucus (MT). And in a Nov. 13...

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