Wyden Predicts Senate will Tackle Medicare Reform

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Unlike other presidential years, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden predicts that the Senate Finance Committee will tackle Medicare reform in the coming months.

“A discussion about Medicare in an election year doesn’t happen particularly often, and I credit Senator Orrin Hatch, the chairman of the committee, for being willing to have a serious discussion about this and moving it forward as far as we possibly can,” Wyden, the ranking member of the Finance Committee, told physicians attending the Oregon Medical Association annual meeting on Saturday. “There’s a pretty good chance we’ll see action even before August so stay tuned. You’re going to see a long discussion about it in the Finance Committee.”

Medicare in 2016 will not resemble the Medicare system that was created in 1965. “Medicare in 2016 is primarily about cancer and diabetes and heart disease and strokes. Both the Democrats and Republicans have missed this issue in its entirety with the Affordable Care Act debate,” he added.

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