A Medicare proposal some Republicans want to include in their sweeping megabill has the backing of a key Democratic senator — though he doesn’t want it included in the party-line package. Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon said in a statement that he stands behind the No UPCODE Act, a bill co-sponsored with Louisiana Republican Bill Cassidy that tackles tools Medicare Advantage plans use to get higher payments from the federal government — calling it 'common sense' that health insurers 'shouldn't be allowed to overcharge taxpayers for the care they deliver.'
Nonprofit Bayada Home Health Care, one of the nation's biggest home care providers, cut about 100 jobs, or about 10% of the staff at its Pennsauken headquarters. The organization employs 32,000 people nationwide. No frontline workers in home care, hospice, pediatric home nursing, or other divisions lost their jobs, Bayada said.
The legislative package would codify and expand Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements, which the first Trump administration introduced in 2019. ICHRAs allow employers to give workers untaxed dollars, which they can use to purchase health insurance on the individual market.
Humana has informed congressional staffers that it supports measures to limit billing practices that result in billions of extra payments to the industry. The company expressed willingness to endorse new restrictions on payments insurers can obtain from diagnoses recorded by nurse practitioners who visit enrollees in their homes.
Chiseling away at President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act. Rolling back the green energy tax breaks from President Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act. At its core, the Republican “big, beautiful bill” is more than just an extension of tax breaks approved during President Donald Trump's first term at the White House. The package is an attempt by Republicans to undo, little by little, the signature domestic achievements of the past two Democratic presidents.
A nonpartisan report found Trump's Big Beautiful Bill would add $2.4 trillion to national debt over next decade. Tillis says he wants to cut waste, not benefits.