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Bipartisan Lawmakers Defend Medicare
Leaders on the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee today lead a bipartisan group of nearly 50 lawmakers (http://lance.house.gov/uploads/SixProtectedClassesLetter.pdf) in opposing a proposed Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services rule that would eliminate protected class status for several categories of drugs under Medicare Part D, among other harmful provisions. The group wrote Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner saying that the rule “will place harmful limits on Medicare beneficiaries’ access to necessary medications that would otherwise be covered.”...Read More
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