Part D Mandatory Rebates Included In Speaker Boehner’s “Fiscal Cliff” Offer
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
House Speaker John Boehner made an offer to President Obama Dec. 3 to base a resolution to the looming fiscal cliff on a proposal by the president’s deficit commission headed by Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, a proposal that included a mandatory rebate on drugs used in Medicare Part D.
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